On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Andrew Ross wrote: > 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 > > Andrew,
Problem solved. Thanks! I am not seeing a blank page--everything looks fine. Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
