Adam: > That may reduce the probability of crashing, but there is no > guarantee that it will actually solve the problems you are seeing. > > To anyone thinking of using the automatic reload: you are asking for > crashes and concomitant data loss. Setting the related hidden > defaults mentioned on the wiki is stupid.
I respectfully beg to strongly differ. You are thinking about the limitations of the currently available tools. We are thinking about smooth and flexible workflows. We want a design where we edit LaTeX code in our favorate editor (not some poor inflexible design imposed upon us by a graphical user interface). We then want the automatic conversion to a PDF. I use atchange to do this so that I just type a ',' while in vim and the file gets written out and the conversion happens automagically. When I'm at work, I want a PDF displayer to notice that the file was written and to display the changes without altering the current view in any other way. When I'm at home, I ssh to work and my showpdf script realizes that and sends the PDF to me from work. I want the PDF displayer at home to update the PDF. This works 99.9% of the time without crashes. The result is that either at work or at home (or anywhere!!) I have one window I edit in without using the mouse. In another window the resulting PDF is displayed whenever I want. This is a WIWIWIG "what I want is what I get" system. I chose to work with Skim because it handles this beautifully most of the time. I could not even get a response from Adobe to implement an automatic update feature. There is clearly a need for this mode. For those using this mode we do NOT CARE ABOUT MARKING OUR PDF. EVER. (We do that separately. We are responsible if we write marks and they are overwritten.) If there were a way to tell Skim to update the PDF from the unix command line then the rare crashes presumably would be eliminated. (These crashes involve the silly spinning ball and so take precious time so a way to avoid them, though rare, would be nice.) Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. Senior Investigator National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory Molecular Information Theory Group Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 schne...@mail.nih.gov http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
