* prevent error page
@ 2020-12-31 19:31 Johann Birnick
2021-01-01 6:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-01-01 10:10 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Johann Birnick @ 2020-12-31 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
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
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* Re: prevent error page
2020-12-31 19:31 prevent error page Johann Birnick
@ 2021-01-01 6:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-01-01 10:10 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2021-01-01 6:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
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
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* Re: prevent error page
2020-12-31 19:31 prevent error page Johann Birnick
2021-01-01 6:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
@ 2021-01-01 10:10 ` Hans Hagen
2021-01-01 14:21 ` Johann Birnick
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2021-01-01 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users, Johann Birnick
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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* Re: prevent error page
2021-01-01 10:10 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2021-01-01 14:21 ` Johann Birnick
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From: Johann Birnick @ 2021-01-01 14:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
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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