* --autopdf blues
@ 2007-04-04 3:57 Idris Samawi Hamid
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From: Idris Samawi Hamid @ 2007-04-04 3:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear gang,
In M$-Windows (and probably unix as well) Acrobat/Reader has the very
irritating feature such that, if called from the command line, it forgets
its last position and resizes itself to the default position, somewhere in
the middle of the screen. This makes
--autopdf
useless if one wants (like me) to have Acrobat always open up in the same
corner of my screen's real estate each time. WinEdt opens Acrobat properly
but since I'm moving away from that (no unicode/bidi support) I tried
automating things in batch files etc. After hours of struggle I finally
learned that clicking on a shortcut to Acrobat/Reader works while running
it from the command line will never work right...
...unless one activates the .LNK extension in the system control panel. See
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1111214434?s
Now --autopdf depends on pdfopen.exe, so I can't configure it apparently
(tested pdfopen.exe directly). Can pdfopen.exe be recompiled so that it
opens Adobe in the last-opened position like a lnk shortcut does?
For what it's worth something like
> "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Adobe Acrobat 7.0
> Professional.lnk" foo.pdf
will work in a batch/make file in the meantime. But it would be nice if
texexec -autopdf
did the same thing.
Any thoughts?
Best
Idris
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