Asciidoc: Export Document as PDF --> prompts user every time

[dreamcat4]

What is the purpose?

• repeatedly save / generate / update pdf in a tighter iteration cycle
• to add a way to just forcibly overwrite the same exact output pdf file
• when overwriting onto same existing output file
• Without having VSCode bring up the popup dialog box

How the extension might better handle this

• add new user config setting
• if the setting is enabled, then the pdf output file is not prompted
• which is enough to close this issue. however:

Optional: (for future considerations)

optional 1)

• if the pdf output filename or path is not the default
• default is: .pdf of filename that is same name as the .adoc
• an asciidoc pdf attribute to optionally specify that?

optional 2)

• if there is any wider livereload / autoreload feature within vscode
• that an appropriate hook can be documented to trigger and invoke the pdf file regeneration
• i.e. to automatically re-trigger every so-often (eg 30s) the action Asciidoc: Export Document as PDF

just all depends how you feel about it. many thanks 🖤

[SjoerdV]

My idea would be to have a setting that takes a full path, or a path/folder relative to the current workspace (without leading /).

The full pdf output path would concatenate that setting value with the relative path of the current adoc file (mkdir -p) effectively mimicking the original adoc file folder structure.

All without prompting anything to the user of course and automatic overwrite

I think this would work the same as one of the markdown extensions' pdf export