From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mptopdf overwrites and deletes pdf file?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:07:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B68A22B.3060206@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nvitacolonna-1EB746.21164902022010@news.gmane.org>
On 2-2-2010 21:16, Nicola wrote:
> Hi,
> consider a folder containing foo.tex and foo.mp. Suppose that, when
> compiled, foo.mp outputs foo.1. Then, the following:
>
> texexec foo.tex
> mptopdf foo.mp
>
> will end up having foo.pdf deleted. I guess this is because mptopdf
> creates foo.pdf out of foo.mp *and then* renames it into foo-1.mp. Is it
> true? Is there a workaround (something like -jobname), other than using
> different names?
no, unless i patch (or rewrite mptopdf)
Hans
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