From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/34112 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: --autopdf blues Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:57:23 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175659077 19511 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2007 03:57:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 03:57:57 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Apr 04 05:57:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HYwd7-0007eA-Qp for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:57:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77914202F9; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 05:57:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19692-02-3; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 05:57:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7FB20293; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 05:57:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D08F20293 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 05:57:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19692-02-2 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 05:57:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 073392026E for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 05:57:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 10645 invoked by uid 1006); 4 Apr 2007 03:57:38 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(0.0/100.0):. Processed in 1.125865 secs); 04 Apr 2007 03:57:38 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.19) by -v with SMTP; 4 Apr 2007 03:57:37 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14079 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2007 03:57:34 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO walayah-main) (75.104.81.191) by -v with SMTP; 4 Apr 2007 03:57:34 -0000 User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.10 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:34112 Archived-At: 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 -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/