The busy pdf can be named \jobname.pdf(busy), similar to \jobname.synctex(busy)
> Le 8 avr. 2022 à 11:19, luigi scarso <luigi.sca...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 8:23 AM Jérôme LAURENS <jerome.laur...@u-bourgogne.fr > <mailto:jerome.laur...@u-bourgogne.fr>> wrote: > Sorry, last answer was too short… > > The problem is not that the new pdf output is not complete until the end of > the typesetting process, the problem is that the old pdf is removed at the > beginning of the typesetting process, whereas it could be removed only at the > very last moment. This would be a big improvement in everyone’s workflow > (overleaf uses that de facto). > > Ah ok, this is the problem...well in this case the solution should be to > open a tempfile to write the pdf data and when finished rename the tempfile. > No need for command line switches. > I cannot use a jobname-related name, because the format can choose the same > name to write its data: it has to be a tempfile name generated by the > operating system, > and also it must be deleted after the termination of the program -- in > any case, i.e error or abort -- because otherwise we can have tons of useless > files that waste space. > I can look at these kinds of requests because it can be an optimization -- > something that does the same thing but better -- modulo that I have not to > upset the code too much. > Indeed, another constraint is that the source code of pdftex /xetex / luatex > should be comparable. > > -- > luigi
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