[Okular-devel] Re: Okular do not keep text position after reloading a file

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous, 23 de desembre de 2010, Pedro Jimenez va escriure:
> Hi Dear,
> 
> I am using Okular 0.11.2 (KDE 4.5.4) to visualize a file which resides
> in a ramdisk (/dev/shm/thesis.dvi, on a Kubuntu 10.10 machine) instead
> of in the harddisk.
> After compiling the latex sources and generating a new .dvi, the
> document is not automatically reloaded by Okular,
> so a script executes the next command after recompiling:
> 
> okular --unique $1.dvi
> 
> This reloads de .dvi.
> However, most of the times, after the reload happends, the visualization
> text position is reseted to the beginning of the document.
> This doesn't happen so often if instead of reloading from the script, I
> just press F5 on the Okular document.
> 
> If the same document is in the harddisk instead of in the ramdisk,
> everything is correct: the document is reloaded automatically, and the
> text position unchanged.
> (I work with the project in ramdisk because I want my noisy harddisk to
> stop. If the project were in the harddisk, the continuously saving would
> avoid it from going to sleep. It's a laptop with battery, so it's save
> to work on ramdisk for long periods)
> 
> As a work around, I create a sym link to the latex directory in my home
> tree. Loding the .dvi file from the symlink, although it is exactly the
> same file than in ram, does automatically reload the file and keeps text
> position.
> However, I prefer the first method (file in ram and $okular --unique
> ...) because that way the document do not disappear while compiling.
> The problem really is not that the document is not automatically
> reloaded, but the reseting of the text position to the beggining.
> 
> Any idea of the issue?

Hi, unless you plan helping developing a fix please use bugs.kde.org to report 
bugs

Albert

> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Pedro
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