On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>wrote:

>
> How does one override the default pdf viewer for MKIV Standalone on
> Windows 7-64 so --autopdf starts Acrobat Reader instead of "sumatrapdf.exe"?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I don't see l-pdf.lua in my standalone .

I don't use sumatra under linux but I see this
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-pdfview.lua:        ['sumatra']     =
'start "test" "c:/data/system/sumatrapdf/sumatrapdf.exe" -reuse-instance',
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-pdfview.lua:        ['sumatra']     =
'start "test" "sumatrapdf.exe" -reuse-instance -bg-color 0xCCCCCC',
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-pdfview.lua:        ['sumatra'] =
false,
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-pdfview.lua:        ['sumatra'] =
false,
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-pdfview.lua:    pdfview.method =
"sumatra"
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-pdfview.lua:        ['sumatra'] =
'wine "sumatrapdf.exe" -reuse-instance -bg-color 0xCCCCCC',
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-pdfview.lua:        ['sumatra'] =
false,
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-pdfview.lua:        ['sumatra'] =
false,
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-pdfview.lua:    pdfview.method =
"sumatra"
tex/texmf-context/context/data/scite/scite-context.properties:
name.flag.pdfopen=--autopdf=sumatra

In l-pdfview.lua I argue that
pdfview.method = "acrobat"
can help .
If you are using scite, then  the file is probably
tex/texmf-context/context/data/scite/scite-context.properties

-- 
luigi