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From: Johann Birnick <johann.birnick@hotmail.de>
To: ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: prevent error page
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 15:21:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB8PR03MB62364FECBF71CEB060677CDFFBD50@DB8PR03MB6236.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4f4b921-615c-de3e-7207-8d85c5fb708c@xs4all.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
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2021-01-01 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-31 19:31 Johann Birnick
2021-01-01  6:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-01-01 10:10 ` Hans Hagen
2021-01-01 14:21   ` Johann Birnick [this message]

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