Re: Why does LilyPond delete the PDF first?

[Valentin Villenave]

2008/6/11 Risto Vääräniemi <address@hidden>:

> With this modification Ghostscript tries to open the file but cannot
> because it's locked. I got a lot of programming errors saying: Parsed
> object should be dead: static scm_unused_struct*.

This is the kind of errors you get when you try to recompile a .ly
file without closing the PDF reader.

This locking thing is really annoying.

> I guess Windows (and Acrobat) handles files differently than Linux and
> KPDF. Could you test on Linux what happens, if a pdf is opened with
> Acrobat (Reader) and you re-compile the file?

I have the same behavior with Foxit Reader, Sumatra, and the JPedal
viewer. So it's definitely an MS-Windows limitation.

Cheers,
Valentin