[Okular-devel] [Bug 199415] blank screen during 'reloading the document...'

[Sven Wehner]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199415


Sven Wehner <sven at atelophobia.de> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Sven Wehner <sven atelophobia de>  2009-08-05 13:54:39 ---
Great, I wanted to file a very similar bug. So let me extend it:
When kile starts to compile the file, it deletes the files content (I use PDF
files) and writes the new content continuously. Thus the PDF is invalid until
the end.

Do you think it's possible to check whether another process holds write access
to the file? Or could you check whether the file doesn't change for a short
amount of time (probably the write process finished)? And then keep the old
content until a new complete, valid file is there.

Btw. the reason that this bug is "important" is the following: When you compile
larger documents -- like a multi-session lecture, a thesis -- it takes a lot of
time to complete. (I had several pgfplots in my thesis and a compile run took
more than a minute.) During that time one usually wants to read the old content
and check for typos etc. But at the moment you get a blank screen and has to
wait...

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