Re: [NTG-context] texexec --pages

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:57 PM 1/26/2003 +0100, you wrote:

Hi Hans,

Today I decided to do some experiments with pdf.

I tried the following command:

    texexec --pages=1:3,20  myfile.pdf
    texexec --pdfselect=1:3,20 myfile.pdf

Both commands have identical failure:

    After starting the command, the 'myfile.pdf' is immediately renamed in
texexec.pdf. Hereafter one should again type the input filename, which of
course is not there anymore. - So texexec renames the input file while it
still should load it with the original input-file name.

Could you please have a look at this?

Can you be more specific?

texexec --pages=... something

is not an option, so 'something' is seen as input file, and in the rare case that a pdf file can be read as text, indeed you'll get a something.pdf file overwritten, which can lead to unexpected results because now the file is read and written at the same time; use:

texexec --pdfselect --select=.... myfile.pdf

instead

Hans


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