From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: autopdf on MacOS?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:45:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <545926F8-18ED-4EE1-B336-63EA88CAA27A@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D132DFBA-8675-43C4-8B19-E1E5E648E79B@ziggo.nl>
> Am 15.04.2021 um 10:26 schrieb Hans van der Meer <havdmeer@ziggo.nl>:
>
> 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
> 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.
Hraban
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-15 8:26 Hans van der Meer
2021-04-15 9:45 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2021-04-15 10:00 ` Hans van der Meer
2021-04-16 8:26 ` Hans Åberg
2021-04-16 8:36 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2021-04-16 12:21 ` Hans Åberg
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