Bug 74339

Summary: cannot open file because it is still being created (by pdflatex)
Product: [Unmaintained] kghostview Reporter: Jens <jens-bugs.kde.org>
Component: generalAssignee: Luís Pedro Coelho <luis>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jens 2004-02-06 13:51:24 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 3.2.0,  (testing/unstable))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 20040110 (prerelease) (Debian)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.22b-w4l-p4

Hi,

I use Kile and Kghostview to produce my thesis. My .tex file is quite large and pdflatex on a P4-1800 takes about 30 seconds to render it (because there are lots of Matlab exported EPS->PDF files and lots of PNG files embedded I suppose).

during that time, KGhostview spams my desktop with "Opening of file diplomarbeit.pdf failed." pop up messages.

I would like KGhostview to:

- either (workaround) display this message only ONCE, wait until the user clicks OK, and only _THEN_ retry opening the file,

- or (better) display this message not as a popup, but as a status bar information, keep retrying until the file is readable again.


The current situation forces me to close six to ten "CAnnot open file" windows after each pdflatex run.


I reported this bug earlier (about half a year ago) but then kghostview crashed when the PDF changed. Now it only spams me with obvious and useless messages.



Thanks,

Jens
Comment 1 Jens 2004-04-06 14:44:48 UTC
See also Bug 79034.
Comment 2 Luís Pedro Coelho 2004-04-11 01:08:13 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79034 ***