Hi

I'm using these 2 commands to plot PDF files ...

SETup Plot 'GDI' 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.008 inches -white_to_black

PLot GDI 1 display best 0.0 '' '' 'Adobe PDF'
............................^^^^^
..................NOTE the 2 empty arguments

The PDF files are created but always named 'Pantheon GDI Plot.pdf'
(without the quotes) which I will presume is coming from the
Pantheon software as a default name. Additionally, the PDF files are
created in whatever folder was setup in the Adobe printer properties
(control panel) -- in my case it is set to C:\TEMP.

Regardless of how I configure the plot command (including the 2
empty arguments pointed out above), it always inherits the setting
from the Adobe printer in windows and creats C:\TEMP\Pantheon GDI
Plot.pdf.

Issue 2: when C:\TEMP\Pantheon GDI Plot.pdf is created, it can be
seen as a valid file in windows file manager but it appears only as
a .tmp file (with zero size) to pantheon if I list C:\TEMP after the
PDF creation (using either a system call to DIR or Perl's readdir
(DIR)).

Does anyone know how to have Pantheon force Adobe to flush the
buffers and IO streams to make the PDF visibile?

FWIW: My script buffering is turned off ($|=1).

I would like to create the PDF without going geometry -> PS -> GDI -
> PDF if possible.

I have tried Adobe 5, 6, 7, 8 and have placed the PDF::Create (and
others) explicitly in the use-pragma list just to be sure there
isn't a Perl library problem.

Any help (or ideas) is greatly appreciated.

George