Thanks for the tip. My earlier problem was definitely something wrong with Acrobat. It now works fine.
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 9:32 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > You can try the output option eg > 'output pdf a1.pdf' plot i.10 > 'output pdf a2.pdf' plot *:i.10 > > > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 3:35 PM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes - it's probably a problem with Acrobat; being able to also display > the > > plot.pdf file in my browser is a red herring. Process monitor shows > > AcroRd32.exe being launched by jconsole but the display window does not > > appear anywhere I can see. Pointing to the plot.pdf file in my browser > also > > lets me see it but Acrobat having a hold on it prevents me from > displaying > > a new plot which is why I have to kill the non-displaying Acrobat reader > in > > order to see a new plot. > > > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 11:44 PM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It unclear to me how you had set your config for display pdf. > > > > > > There is an option inside base.cfg to set the specific program to > display > > > pdf not necessary a browser. For windows, the full path name to acrobat > > > reader is required. If it still caches the old plot then you need to > set > > > file name of plot. > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2021, 12:17 PM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi - in the most recent version of J my plots are acting oddly. I > did > > > not > > > > change my config so it should be continuing to use Adobe Acrobat > reader > > > > (AcroRd32.exe) to display PDFs which typically pops up in a browser > (MS > > > > Edge) tab. Now Acrobat seems to continue to run in the background > > when I > > > > kill the browser tab and I have to kill it manually in order to run a > > new > > > > plot. > > > > > > > > Has anyone else had an issue like this? Is there a simple argument > to > > > > "plot" to force it to use another filename besides "plot.pdf"? I > > suspect > > > > the problem may go away with a re-boot but I do not want to do that > > right > > > > now. > > > > > > > > This is under jconsole under emacs. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Devon > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > > > > > > > Quantitative Consultant > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > > > Quantitative Consultant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
