You can use AppleScript, or wrap that in a shell script. There's some info
on the WIki on that, in the PDFSync section.
Christiaan
On 8/10/07, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That's probably it. Thanks. Maybe I'll ask the PLplot folks about
> this. But now I'm wondering if there is a command line version of
> Skim. I could simply send a command from my program to Skim to open
> the new file.
> Jerry
>
> On Aug 9, 2007, at 4:46 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> > In fact PS files are followed for file changes. So the problem is
> > somewhere else. Probably the PS file is deleted before it is
> > replaced, in which case it's lost track of.
> >
> > Christiaan
> >
> > On 9 Aug 2007, at 1:06 PM, Jerry wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Aug 9, 2007, at 2:43 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 9 Aug 2007, at 6:37 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Aug 8, 2007, at 21:17, Jerry wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'd file this as a bug report but I'm not sure it's a bug.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm not using Skim for TeX stuff but as a viewer for plots which
> >>>>> happen to be generated by the excellent PLplot. PLplot writes
> >>>>> Postscript files. I've enabled "Check for file changes" in the
> >>>>> prefs
> >>>>> but Skim does not re-load the file after a run of my plot-
> >>>>> generating
> >>>>> program finishes.
> >>>>
> >>>> I believe that only files which are loaded as PDF can be
> >>>> monitored; PS
> >>>> goes through an intermediate step internally whereby it's
> >>>> converted to
> >>>> PDF for display, just like Apple's Preview.
> >>>>
> >>>>> I have to make an edit to the (old) version then
> >>>>> select Revert in order to get the newly-make PS file. Is the
> >>>>> "Check
> >>>>> for file changes" related only to TeX stuff or can it monitor any
> >>>>> file for changes. A simple "Reload" command might be a good
> >>>>> compromise between ease of use and not accidentally reloading a
> >>>>> file
> >>>>> (and loosing notes). Also, a periodic re-checking of the file on
> >>>>> disk
> >>>>> might generate too much work if the file (due to me running my
> >>>>> plotting program) takes several seconds or minutes to be re-
> >>>>> written.
> >>>>> The more I think about it, a manual Reload function might be
> >>>>> sweet.
> >>>>
> >>>> Revert serves this purpose, and you can also use it from
> >>>> AppleScript.
> >>>> If there's a script involved in using PLplot, you could use
> >>>> osascript
> >>>> to reload.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> adam
> >>>
> >>> But Revert would never work for a PS file, just as Save is disabled.
> >>> PS is not a native type for Skim, it's only a viewer for that type.
> >>> This is standard document based app behavior, and for good reasons.
> >>>
> >>> Christiaan
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I'm not sure what all the issues are--I'm just saying that for the
> >> particular situation where I have to repeatedly open the same
> >> (Postscript) file, having to select the Note tool, make a mark on the
> >> file (making the loaded file dirty, I suppose), then selecting Revert
> >> and answering a dialog boxe is a fair number of steps especially when
> >> I have to do it a whole lot of times in a day. A simple Reload, as
> >> opposed to a Revert (which assumes that the loaded file has been
> >> modified in memory), would certainly be nice to have.
> >>
> >> Jerry
> >>
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