Both good points.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:56 PM Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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