Hi there, in my setup I constantly have a pdf viewer open showing the output of context. When I recompile the viewer updates. Now if there is an error, the document fails to compile, of course. Previously the pdf file just remainded untouched, nice. But now with LMTX, the pdf will be overwritten with a pdf just saying "error". This makes my pdf viewer crash! I can't work like this. So how to prevent this "error" page and just let context remain the pdf untouched if there is an error? Best regards, Johann
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020, Johann Birnick wrote:
Hi there,
in my setup I constantly have a pdf viewer open showing the output of context. When I recompile the viewer updates.
Now if there is an error, the document fails to compile, of course. Previously the pdf file just remainded untouched, nice. But now with LMTX, the pdf will be overwritten with a pdf just saying "error". This makes my pdf viewer crash! I can't work like this.
So how to prevent this "error" page and just let context remain the pdf untouched if there is an error?
You can try: context --nodummy filename which will not generate the "error" pdf. However, if the error was such that context had to abort the run, then no valid PDF will be generated. You cannot have the previous PDF untouched because context starts overwriting the PDF while processing. Another option is to use context --result=output.pdf filename in which case context writes the result to output.pdf. If there is an error, then output.pdf is not overwritten. Depending on your pdf viewer, this might work better. Aditya
On 12/31/2020 8:31 PM, Johann Birnick wrote:
Hi there,
in my setup I constantly have a pdf viewer open showing the output of context. When I recompile the viewer updates.
Now if there is an error, the document fails to compile, of course. Previously the pdf file just remainded untouched, nice. But now with LMTX, the pdf will be overwritten with a pdf just saying "error". This makes my pdf viewer crash! I can't work like this.
So how to prevent this "error" page and just let context remain the pdf untouched if there is an error? Actually the remaining file is not untouched when there is an error halfway, so maybe your viewer didn't do anything when the xref etc was missing and fonts were unresolved ... all depends on the viewer i guess (after a pdf update the viewer has to reread the xref at least and then all objects it has cached).
Long ago I played with a temp file and renaming but that also was not stable (at least not here). (for ways around: see other mails) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
context --nodummy works fine with my viewer, thanks!! On Fri, 2021-01-01 at 11:10 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 12/31/2020 8:31 PM, Johann Birnick wrote:
Hi there,
in my setup I constantly have a pdf viewer open showing the output of context. When I recompile the viewer updates.
Now if there is an error, the document fails to compile, of course. Previously the pdf file just remainded untouched, nice. But now with LMTX, the pdf will be overwritten with a pdf just saying "error". This makes my pdf viewer crash! I can't work like this.
So how to prevent this "error" page and just let context remain the pdf untouched if there is an error? Actually the remaining file is not untouched when there is an error halfway, so maybe your viewer didn't do anything when the xref etc was missing and fonts were unresolved ... all depends on the viewer i guess (after a pdf update the viewer has to reread the xref at least and then all objects it has cached).
Long ago I played with a temp file and renaming but that also was not stable (at least not here).
(for ways around: see other mails)
Hans
----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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