[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erlend Davidson wrote:
>>> Attached a rough latex thumbnailer. Uses latex to generate a dvi and
>>> then convert to output a png.
>>>     
>> You should cleanup the temporary files used by your script.
>>   
> Latex can leave quite a lot of temporary files behind after a compile.  
> How should I deal with these temporary files?  If the original latex 
> file is document.tex then the temporary files generated by latex will be 
> document.[aux,log,toc] (sometimes there are more if there are errors, or 
> bibtex files) - but I'm not currently checking to see if files by these 
> names are already in /tmp ... so I might be overwriting some other log file.
> 
> Should I create a subdirectory in /tmp (maybe the name of which is the 
> md5sum of document.tex??) compile into that directory (so the .dvi file 
> and all the temporary files go in there) and then rm -r /tmp/[directory] ?

Yes, or use mkdtemp() to create a temporary directory.

Benedikt