Dear XMLmind support team, please remove my address from the mailing list.
Thank you very much. Kind regards, Rolf Iben ----- original Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [XXE] Detecting a locked PDF file Gesendet: Do, 23. Apr 2009 Von: Hussein Shafie<hussein at xmlmind.com> > Andy Black wrote: > > > > Some PDF reader applications lock the PDF file they are displaying. One > > implication of this is that if a user tries to re-generate a PDF file > > from within XXE while that file is currently being viewed in the PDF > > reader, then the generation process will result in a "command execution > > has failed" message. (Well, at least it does for my configuration > > files...). > > > > My question is this: is there a way within the XXE configuration files > > to detect if the PDF file that is about to be generated is in a state > > where this situation will happen? If so, I'd like to then give the user > > a message saying that they need to remove the PDF from their PDF reader. > > > > I'd be happy with any kind of detection such as > > cannot delete the file > > file is being used by another application > > the reader has the file open already > > or any other conceivable way to detect this situation. I want to avoid > > users being confused by this scenario. Most likely they will think > > something on the order of "I just created the PDF file a few minutes > > ago. Why won't it generate it now?" and be frustrated. > > > > The error message issued by the operating system should be crystal-clear > in such case. > > This error message is indeed reported by XMLmind XML Editor. See > attached screenshot. Notice the "(Permission denied)" error cause. On > Windows, error causes are even more explicit (e.g. "file is being used > by another application"). > > No offense intended, but are you sure that your users actually read what > is displayed by the error dialog box before clicking OK? > > > > --- original Nachricht Ende ----
