Re: [Gnumed-bugs] Problem in 0.9.4 printing medication list on Mac

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-05-09, at 12:50 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

>> Maybe the script (on Mac) is configured not to write it
>> into the above subdir but instead to pass it to the Mac PDF
>> preview application "Preview" so maybe the PDF lives in some
>> application-specific temp directory
> 
> Hm, you mean like a Preview-specific temp dir ? That might
> be possible but then I would expect Preview to auto-open and
> show the PDF.
> 
>> and something in the passing or opening is broken?
> 
> Theoretically, sure, but the log doesn't show any problems
> with moving the final PDF up one level or with accessing the
> final PDF (it does an explicit check on that).
> 
> I think you are close.

For reasons I am not sure of (which included a reboot of my laptop and trying 
Kirk) the LaTex to PDF now seems to work.

What I notice is that the .pdf which supposedly written

        Output written on gm-L-Template-DIsc_p-instance.pdf (1 page, 167323 
bytes). 

cannot be found, except that it is only testable after a PDF named "Untitled" 
and containing the output has opened within the Mac "Preview" application.

Therefore I wonder if the following explanation is correct:

- the script writes the PDF
- the PDF is passed to [printer or application] --> which accounts for an 
untitled PDF "Untitled" opening in my Preview app
- the written-to-disk PDF is immediately deleted (which is why I cannot find it)

-- Jim