[pdf-devel] suggestion for GNUpdf

[Thomas Schneider]

Dear GNUpdf Developers:

I use LaTeX and generate PDF files.  Often I use ssh to my work  
computer and send
the results over the net to my computer where I want to display them.   
(I automate this
process using my atchange program, 
http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/atchange.html)
When the PDF arrives at my Mac, it pops up.  However, it has no memory  
of
the page I was on.  This means I have to manually go to the page every  
time
I update and compile the LaTeX to produce the new PDF.

The bottom line is that I'd like to see the PDF viewer watch the  
original file.
If the file changes, the PDF viewer would refresh itself.  Then I  
would be able
to use ssh to edit my LaTeX input file and after writing the file out  
I would see the
change on the PDF in a few moments.

This should be easy to implement by checking the file date/ 
modification time
every second or so (possibly an optional preference the user can set).

Thanks for considering this suggestion.

Tom Schneider