From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/55902 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: mptopdf overwrites and deletes pdf file? Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:07:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4B68A22B.3060206@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265148508 21588 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2010 22:08:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:08:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nicola To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Feb 02 23:08:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NcQuy-0001PV-3k for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:08:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BEDC9CE8; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:09:08 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ldxZVdkHopJT; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:09:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E1CC9CD8; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:08:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084A0C9CD8 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:08:46 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id rWRlJyLYT37I for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:08:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588CBC9CCE for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:08:41 +0100 (CET) X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-9 (SurgeMail 4.2d2) with ESMTP id 2296-1713362 for multiple; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:07:18 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:55902 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________