On 2007-08-14 04:53-0700 Jerry wrote: > With the help of the Skim list (and one Christiaan Hofman), we might > have figured out why Skim (the PDF-PS reader) isn't reloading changed > files. Recall that the initial motivation for automatic reloading was > use Skim as a viewer for TeX. Since TeX can write to the file over > some period of time, they look for %%EOF to determine if the file is > fully written. PLplot does not terminate a PS file that way. > > Here is his comment: > > >> On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >>> That explains it. We check for %%EOF to find out if the file has been >>> fully written. Otherwise we have no way to know if a file is complete >>> (and tex writes incrementally, so loading too earl;y can lead to a >>> crash). >>> >>> Christiaan >>>
Andrew, I have just discovered that -dev psttfc and -dev pscairo put the %%EOF postscript command at the end of the postscript file and -dev psc does not. Could you fix that psc problem, please? Once you do so, I am virtually positive that Jerry's troubles with Skim will be over. Jerry, to answer your previous question about which device you are using, the only ways you can choose the device is with the command-line -dev option or interactively from a menu, or with the plsdev command. So you must be doing one of those with either the psc, psttfc, or pscairo devices. The latter two require extra libraries which you probably don't have so I am virtually positive you are using the psc device on those grounds alone, and the lack of %%EOF for that device which I have asked Andrew to fix pretty much clinches it. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
