Re: Overriding pdfview

[Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>]

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On 6/26/2013 10:20 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bill Meahan 
> <subscribed_lists@meahan.net <mailto:subscribed_lists@meahan.net>> wrote:
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>     How does one override the default pdf viewer for MKIV Standalone
>     on Windows 7-64 so --autopdf starts Acrobat Reader instead of
>     "sumatrapdf.exe"?
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>     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.
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>     I have searched through the source and tried editing l-pdf.lua but
>     that doesn't seem to fix the problem. I shouldn't have to edit
>     system source in any event.
>
>     Mark me frustrated.
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> I don't see l-pdf.lua in my standalone .
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TYPO: It's l-pdfview.lua sometimes my memory....

 From my standalone (updated yesterday)

..[snip]..
if os.type == "windows" then

     opencalls = {
         ['default']     = "pdfopen --rxi --file",
         ['acrobat']     = "pdfopen --rxi --file",
         ['fullacrobat'] = "pdfopen --axi --file",
         ['okular']      = 'start "test" 
"c:/data/system/kde/bin/okular.exe" --unique', -- todo!
         ['sumatra']     = 'start "test" 
"c:/data/system/sumatrapdf/sumatrapdf.exe" -reuse-instance',
         ['okular']      = 'start "test" "okular.exe" --unique',
         ['sumatra']     = 'start "test" "sumatrapdf.exe" 
-reuse-instance -bg-color 0xCCCCCC',
     }
     closecalls= {
         ['default'] = "pdfclose --file",
         ['acrobat'] = "pdfclose --file",
         ['okular']  = false,
         ['sumatra'] = false,
     }
     allcalls = {
         ['default'] = "pdfclose --all",
         ['acrobat'] = "pdfclose --all",
         ['okular']  = false,
         ['sumatra'] = false,
     }

     pdfview.method = "acrobat" -- no longer useful due to green pop up 
line and clasing reader/full
     pdfview.method = "sumatra"   <===========================

     runner = function(cmd)
         os.execute(cmd) -- .. " > /null"
     end

else
  ..[snip]..

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.

--
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan

"The nice thing about standards is there are so many of them." --Henry 
Spencer


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