Re: Overriding pdfview

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I likewise find the Sumatr pdf viewer better.  Besides the benefits already mentioned, it also has the proper quality of being non-intrusive.  Adobe readers are quite happy to bloat your memory and take control or otherwise intrude on your system's normal operations.

I don't use Adobe's reader at all. 


Cheers


Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 6/26/2013 6:11 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Bill Meahan
> >
> >>         I don't have "sumatra" and do not wish to install it just to
> >>         satisfy this one application. WTH is it anyway? (I know what
> >>         it is, it's a rhetorical question). Making some obscure pdf
> >>         viewer the default with no clear way to change it is not a
> >>         good idea. For Windows, the vast majority of people have
> >>         Acrobat Reader which is very often preinstalled. For Linux,
> >>         it's less clear what the default should be but {xpdf
> >>         |evince|acroread} are quite common. Can't speak to OSX as I've
> >>         never used it but I'd bet a coffee Acrobat Reader is (or can
> >>         be) there, too.
> 
> - on none of my window boxes acrobat was preinstalled
> - there is no robust way to start acrobat
> - pdfopen has to be adapted to major updates of acrobat
> - there is (at least on my machine) a potential clash between reader
> and professional
> - acrobat occasionally tends to block
> - the latest version of acrobat has funny popups when opening docs
> 
> while sumatrapdf
> 
> - is pretty fast
> - has matured quite well
> - remembers the current page
> - renders quite ok
> - even supports some basic interactivity
> - (has an ugly yellow pop up windows but those can nowadays be recolored)
> - can be installed as portable application
> - works ok wine/linux (in fact has my preference now when on linux)
> 
> so, enough reasons for me to have changed the defaults (esp because
> one can always set different defaults)
> 
> >     Although I first discovered this when trying to use SciTE, it does
> >     the same thing if invoked from the command line. The pdf viewer does
> >     not appear in any of the SciTE *.properties files.
> >
> >
> > maybe
> > context --autopdf=acrobat <yourfile.tex>
> > context --autopdf=fullacrobat <yourfile.tex>
> 
> or in a scite user properties file:
> 
> if PLAT_WIN
>     name.flag.pdfopen=--autopdf=acrobat
> 
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