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List:       pdf-devel
Subject:    Re: [pdf-devel] suggestion for GNUpdf
From:       Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente <raskolnikov () es ! gnu ! org>
Date:       2009-05-27 8:13:20
Message-ID: 4A1CF620.2070709 () es ! gnu ! org
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Evince, the Gnome Document Viewer, does that already :)

JP


Thomas Schneider wrote:
> Dear GNUpdf Developers:
> 
> I use LaTeX and generate PDF files.  Often I use ssh to my work computer
> and send
> the results over the net to my computer where I want to display them. 
> (I automate this
> process using my atchange program,
> http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/atchange.html)
> When the PDF arrives at my Mac, it pops up.  However, it has no memory of
> the page I was on.  This means I have to manually go to the page every time
> I update and compile the LaTeX to produce the new PDF.
> 
> The bottom line is that I'd like to see the PDF viewer watch the
> original file.
> If the file changes, the PDF viewer would refresh itself.  Then I would
> be able
> to use ssh to edit my LaTeX input file and after writing the file out I
> would see the
> change on the PDF in a few moments.
> 
> This should be easy to implement by checking the file date/modification
> time
> every second or so (possibly an optional preference the user can set).
> 
> Thanks for considering this suggestion.
> 
> Tom Schneider
> 
> 

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