On Aug 9, 2007, at 2:43 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 9 Aug 2007, at 6:37 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> >> On Aug 8, 2007, at 21:17, Jerry wrote: >> >>> I'd file this as a bug report but I'm not sure it's a bug. >>> >>> I'm not using Skim for TeX stuff but as a viewer for plots which >>> happen to be generated by the excellent PLplot. PLplot writes >>> Postscript files. I've enabled "Check for file changes" in the prefs >>> but Skim does not re-load the file after a run of my plot-generating >>> program finishes. >> >> I believe that only files which are loaded as PDF can be >> monitored; PS >> goes through an intermediate step internally whereby it's >> converted to >> PDF for display, just like Apple's Preview. >> >>> I have to make an edit to the (old) version then >>> select Revert in order to get the newly-make PS file. Is the "Check >>> for file changes" related only to TeX stuff or can it monitor any >>> file for changes. A simple "Reload" command might be a good >>> compromise between ease of use and not accidentally reloading a file >>> (and loosing notes). Also, a periodic re-checking of the file on >>> disk >>> might generate too much work if the file (due to me running my >>> plotting program) takes several seconds or minutes to be re-written. >>> The more I think about it, a manual Reload function might be sweet. >> >> Revert serves this purpose, and you can also use it from AppleScript. >> If there's a script involved in using PLplot, you could use osascript >> to reload. >> >> -- >> adam > > But Revert would never work for a PS file, just as Save is disabled. > PS is not a native type for Skim, it's only a viewer for that type. > This is standard document based app behavior, and for good reasons. > > Christiaan > > I'm not sure what all the issues are--I'm just saying that for the particular situation where I have to repeatedly open the same (Postscript) file, having to select the Note tool, make a mark on the file (making the loaded file dirty, I suppose), then selecting Revert and answering a dialog boxe is a fair number of steps especially when I have to do it a whole lot of times in a day. A simple Reload, as opposed to a Revert (which assumes that the loaded file has been modified in memory), would certainly be nice to have.
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