On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:58:42AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > 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.
Jerry, Please try the latest svn version which includes the fix for the ps driver to include %%EOF at the end of the file. Hopefully this will solve your Skim problems. Can you let me know if you see a blank page when it refreshes? I see this with ghostview. I know why, I'm just trying to ascertain if this is just a ghostview problem. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
