Hi,
I've just completely wiped out Skim and installed a fresh copy. I'm having a
weird issue:
I used to use Skim with TeX and auto-refresh. If something during pdflatex
screwed up I
used to just revert the file. So far so good.
A few weeks ago I started to give pandoc a try as a Markdown preprocessor for
LaTeX.
Currently I use the xetex engine from pandoc to compile the markdown file to
tex and from
there to pdf.
Skim seems not to pick up the change in the .pdf file and thus does not auto
refresh. But
it even has the "revert" menu item grayed out. No matter if I have the "Check
for file changes"
option in the Sync settings enabled or not. I have to quit Skim and reopen it.
There seems no
/simple/ way around right now.
Using AppleScript I was able to create some replacement using a script provided
on the web[1]
as basis:
=== skim ===
#!/bin/bash
pdf_home=$(dirname $(./getlink $0))
exec osascript \
-e "tell application \"Skim\"" \
-e "activate" \
-e "open ((POSIX file \"$pdf_home/$*\") as string)" \
-e "revert front document" \
-e "end tell";
which needs the following helper script I found on SO [2]:
=== getlink ===
#!/bin/sh
TARGET_FILE=$1
cd `dirname $TARGET_FILE`
TARGET_FILE=`basename $TARGET_FILE`
# Iterate down a (possible) chain of symlinks
while [ -L "$TARGET_FILE" ]
do
TARGET_FILE=`readlink $TARGET_FILE`
cd `dirname $TARGET_FILE`
TARGET_FILE=`basename $TARGET_FILE`
done
# Compute the canonicalized name by finding the physical path
# for the directory we're in and appending the target file.
PHYS_DIR=`pwd -P`
RESULT=$PHYS_DIR/$TARGET_FILE
echo $RESULT
To glue it all together I currently use a Makefile that call's pandoc and skim
in succession.
kindest regards,
Moritz Angermann
[1]
http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2007/07/script-to-open-file-in-skim-from.html
[2]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055671/how-can-i-get-the-behavior-of-gnus-readlink-f-on-a-mac
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