From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/83235 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: hwitloc@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Overriding pdfview Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:21:29 +0900 Message-ID: <20130627112129.876@binki> References: <51CAF274.9050503@meahan.net> <51CB0614.5030208@meahan.net> <51CB4133.7060707@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372299718 30160 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2013 02:21:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 02:21:58 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 27 04:22:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Us1qP-0001yg-6e for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:21:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA155101F7; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:21:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 7cMVAKKm02vr; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:21:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0136C101E5; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:21:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229FF101E5 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:21:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id cvhK3vtRn1ZE for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:21:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734CA101E4 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:21:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail2.asahi-net.or.jp (mail2.asahi-net.or.jp [202.224.39.198]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r5R2LS3w018120 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:21:29 +0200 Original-Received: from binki (z163101.dynamic.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp [110.4.163.101]) by mail2.asahi-net.or.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB0F36D50 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:21:27 +0900 (JST) In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:29:55 +0200 <51CB4133.7060707@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: MH-E 8.3.1; GNU Mailutils 2.99.98; GNU Emacs 24.3.2 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=202.224.39.198; country=JP; latitude=36.0000; longitude=138.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.0000,138.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 01JReltCw - f0453d5abbe5 - 20130627 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:83235 Archived-At: 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 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 > > context --autopdf=fullacrobat > > or in a scite user properties file: > > if PLAT_WIN > name.flag.pdfopen=--autopdf=acrobat > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________