Others might want to see live updates,
using software that can deal with it
(other than Adobe junk).
This would be a breaking change.
Keep that new definition locally,
if you need it, but don’t disrupt
others’ workflows.
Am 11.11.20 um 20:51 schrieb Devon McCormick:
> I have often been annoyed by the behavior of plot when I try to plot
> something but have previously plotted something so the 2nd plot fails with
> this message:
> Unable to write to file: ...plot.pdf
> If the file is open in Adobe, close the file and try again.
>
> I changed this behavior by inserting this code into "pdf_write" in
> "jzplot.ijs" and "pdfdraw.ijs":
> wroteFile=. 1
> if. _1 -: dat flwrite file do.
> file=. (":?1e3) (([ ,~ ] {.~ '.' i:~ ]) , ] }.~ '.' i:~ ]) file
> wroteFile=. 0
> end.
> if. -.wroteFile do.
> ...
> end.
>
> immediately preceding and encompassing the statement block starting "while.
> _1 -: dat flwrite file do." in both jzplot and pdfdraw; I also made a
> similar change for "OutputFile" in the function "write" in "publish.ijs".
>
> This changes the name of "plot.pdf" to "'plot',(":?1e3),'.pdf'" if the
> initial write attempt fails but this name change is local to the writing
> fns so I don't know what side-effects this has.
>
> It looks like the name "~temp/plot.pdf" is assigned to the global
> "PDF_DEFFILE" in jzplot. The only place I see this global used is inside
> "pdf_getparms" which is used in "pdf_show" and "pdf_get" and these two
> function names are assigned to the globals "pd_pdf" and "pd_pdfr" in
> jzplot. I don't see any uses of these names other than this assignment.
>
> In any case, it would be nice to incorporate this into the J code base. If
> not, I suppose I can continue to manually update the modules whenever I
> upgrade. Maybe I will eventually encounter an unwanted side-effect.
> Right now it looks like this change might clutter up my ~temp area with
> random PDF files but I can live with that.
>
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