Re: Does Evince watch pdf files?

[Paul Smith <phhs80 gmail com>]

On 5/15/05, Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev yandex ru> wrote:
> > Has Evince got the feature "watch file"? I mean: can Evince update
> > automatically the view of an active pdf file as soon as the file is
> > changed?
> 
> Hi. Thanks for feature request. It's better to fill them in bugzilla, so
> they can be easily tracked. I've filled one. Fill free to add yourself
> to CC list of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304249 or even
> write patch. That problem should be very easy to fix.

Thanks, Nickolay. I cannot offer myself to write a patch, as I am not
a programmer and I do not know anything about programming. However,
the requested feature is quite useful to many people, particularly the
ones (maybe thousands) who use pdflatex to produce pdf files.

Paul