Re: [Denemo-devel] Mac print issues

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 07:27 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 08:25:23AM +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 00:05 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:33:10PM +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 09:01 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > > > I don't know why this is only effecting the Mac build of denemo... 
> > > > > Something seems to be getting out of sync. Denemo is finding and 
> > > > > executing lilypond correcty and evince is loading pdf's correctly. 
> > > > > What I see is that if I hit ctrl-p p, 
> > > > Have you got continuous typesetting turned on? (If you delete the print
> > > > view window it will be off, but set Continuous to manual anyway).
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I set it to manual but it still did not work. It was not until I closed 
> > > the window of the pop-up
> > 
> > What pop-up are you referring to?
> > 
> > If the score-check script finds a problem it pops up a dialog asking if
> > you want to try and print anyway. Is it that?
> 
> No, Its the progressbar pop-up.

Well, dismissing that aborts the waiting for the LilyPond process to
signal it has finished IIRC. Do you have top or some other tool for
looking at what the processes are doing?

Richard



> 
> Jeremiah
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > >  did printview refresh. Perhaps this gives you a clue. Perhaps there is 
> > > bug in the popup not closing properly. 
> > > 
> > > Jeremiah
> > > 
> > > > > the progress bar pops up and just flashes back and forth for a very 
> > > > > long time. The console says loop  loop loop etc...
> > > > This is the score-checking command that is being run - you can use the
> > > > (d-Print) routine (IIRC) to access the primitive print routine without
> > > > any checking first.
> > > > 
> > > > >  but then I get a popup saying that there is a print in progress 
> > > > > asking me if I want to kill the print job.
> > > > this is what happens with Continuous set if you then do a Print
> > > > command...
> > > > >  I am seeing pdf's in the /tmp/Denemoxxx dir. Unfortunately they are 
> > > > > not the same name.
> > > > Two names denemoprintA.pdf and denemoprintB.pdf are used on alternate
> > > > lilypond runs, to avoid file locking trouble.
> > > > 
> > > > >  I saw a denemoprintA.pdf or something like that in the temp dir and 
> > > > > denemo was complaining about the denomoprintB.pdf not being found.
> > > > That's ok, nothing deletes denemoprintA.pdf when LilyPond is running and
> > > > generating the B version.
> > > > 
> > > > >  I copied the lilypath from the preferences just to make sure it was 
> > > > > working and I pasted it at the command line to render the .ly files 
> > > > > in temp. It succedded. I then clicked refresh in the printview and it 
> > > > > loaded the pdf correctly. I am not sure how this is happening but it 
> > > > > seems somehow stuff is getting out of sync here.
> > > > perhaps this is all just confusion caused by manually starting print
> > > > while continuous is set. Maybe we need to detect this and prevent the
> > > > confusion?
> > > > 
> > > > Richard
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > 
> >