md-to-pdf: bug: Watch mode only works once

Context:

version (md-to-pdf -v): 3.2.1
platform (Unix, macOS, Windows): Windows
node version: v10.18.0

Describe the bug:

The watch mode only works the first time after it generates an empty PDF.

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Create a documentation.md file
Run md2pdf documentation.md --watch
Open the PDF and see that’s it is generated correctly ✔️
Make a change to documentation.md
Open the PDF file and see that’s it is generated correctly ✔️
Make a change to documentation.md
Open the PDF file and see that’s the file empty now ❌
You can repeat step 6 and 7 several time the file will always be empty now ❌

demo_bug_watch_md_to_pdf

The problem occurs also when adding --as-html.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 16 (10 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I would probably set the value to 250 to try having it work on “most” computers.

I don’t think I’ll provide a default value here because I can’t even reproduce the issue at all on macOS so it’s probably not even necessary for a good chunk of the users. But thanks for confirming that this fixes it, i’ll see that I make a commit and release this soon.

simonhaenisch on Feb 22, 2021