Hans Hagen scripsit (02.09.2008 10:09)
can you try the table call, like in
os.exec({"c:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\acrord32.exe","e:/tmp/oeps.pdf"})
I did try the table call (that's actually the form used in the original script where the problem first appeared).
here both spawn and exec seem to work ok
Do you mean you tried the above example with Adobe Reader 9 on windows and AR did not crash? Here (win XP SP2, AR9, LuaTeX 0.25.4 from TL'08) it crashes, and the original scripts from which I extracted the minimal demo above have been reported to crash on: - Vista + Adobe Acrobat pro 9 (TL'08) - Unkown windows (I can ask) + Adobe Reader 8.1 (TL'08) (dump available) Up to now the problem looks rather reproducible. I would be rather surprised that you can't reproduce it.
btw, there is 'pdfopen' for opening pdf files; if the operating system supports suffix associations os.execute("e:/tmp/oeps.pdf") works too
On windows I was originally using 'start' to open any file using suffix associations. I changed it to acrord32 just for this example to make it clear the problem was with AR9 and not with the association mechanism or whatever. Manuel.