From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/83269 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Overriding pdfview Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:28:42 +0200 Message-ID: <51CD493A.1020400@wxs.nl> References: <20130627194330.GB30604@darjiling> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372408175 5251 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2013 08:29:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:29:35 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 28 10:29:37 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 1UsU3j-00049D-UU for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:29:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3638710281; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:29:34 +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 nkaJ7Et8o+gm; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:29:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD4A1027E; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:29:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5782B1027D for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:29:30 +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 WB1FlwrserBd for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:29:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37095101E8 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:29:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r5S8THPX013721 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:29:17 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.103; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.3c2) with ESMTP id 9389-1713362 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:29:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=15; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0NJRIthxz - e7790f46afb7 - 20130628 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 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:83269 Archived-At: On 6/28/2013 1:46 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > I'll repeat what I said, though: the PDF reader that is (a) most > likely to be installed, and (b) is most logical / least surprising to > the user, is: the user's own default PDF viewer. Adobe Reader may be > clunky for this purpose, but IMO the user's choice should nonetheless > be respected. > > It is easier, and less aggravating, to look up 'what is a better PDF > viewer than Adobe' than 'why does ConTeXt not respect my default PDF > viewer setting?' well, is someone chooses 'default' i.e. --autopdf=default then the pdfopen and pdfclose commands are used and these will use the system defaults; i can add 'auto' to do 'start' and 'open' but i'm not going to bother then with something close (which isn't available on all systems anyway) to be honest. i wasn't aware if anyone using --autopdf anyway and i mostly made it for my own edit/view cycle with scite, and the defaults there are my personal ones and users can easilly override them in a user properties file (so anyone not satisfied with my choices can set the preference to --autopdf=default there and get whatever (probably acrobat) is set up there (and then start fighting version clash startup differences) i expect most users to use their personal favourite editor and be able to configure the run context command (and is one omits the --autopdf viewing is completely up to the editor / os: as said, i only added --autopdf because it's handy in scite) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________