Thanks. At least worked twice 😊 met vriendelijke groet dr. Hans van der Meer

On 15 Apr 2021, at 11:45, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Am 15.04.2021 um 10:26 schrieb Hans van der Meer :

When running the command: context --autopdf --run myfile.tex I had hoped the pdfviewer Preview on my MacOS system (version Catalina) would open the pdf for viewing.

It works with --autopdf=auto

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Allthough a new pdf is created, this is not opened. If the pdf is open in Preview already, it is not updated unless switching to the Preview application.

It something wrong here? Is it not functional in MacOS? Am I missing some clue?

Apple’s Preview updates only on activation, and not reliably (for me, it often crashes).

That it doesn’t update in the background is more a feature than a bug, otherwise it would complain about broken/unavailable files during the TeX runs.

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On 4/16/21 10:26 AM, Hans Åberg wrote:

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That it doesn’t update in the background is more a feature than a bug, otherwise it would complain about broken/unavailable files during the TeX runs. It is likely a bug: It has worked in some past versions.

It still works for me (I'm on the latest version of macos). The trick is to not change the focus to the pdf document in preview until the TeX run has finished; otherwise you get a dialogue box complaining about a broken pdf document. It also helps that ConTeXt now displays the colorful "error" page when something goes wrong; otherwise, preview crashes. Thomas