I likewise find the Sumatr pdf viewer better. Besides the benefits already mentioned, it also has the proper quality of being non-intrusive. Adobe readers are quite happy to bloat your memory and take control or otherwise intrude on your system's normal operations.
I don't use Adobe's reader at all.
Cheers
Hans Hagen
On 6/26/2013 6:11 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Bill Meahan
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.
- on none of my window boxes acrobat was preinstalled - there is no robust way to start acrobat - pdfopen has to be adapted to major updates of acrobat - there is (at least on my machine) a potential clash between reader and professional - acrobat occasionally tends to block - the latest version of acrobat has funny popups when opening docs
while sumatrapdf
- is pretty fast - has matured quite well - remembers the current page - renders quite ok - even supports some basic interactivity - (has an ugly yellow pop up windows but those can nowadays be recolored) - can be installed as portable application - works ok wine/linux (in fact has my preference now when on linux)
so, enough reasons for me to have changed the defaults (esp because one can always set different defaults)
Although I first discovered this when trying to use SciTE, it does the same thing if invoked from the command line. The pdf viewer does not appear in any of the SciTE *.properties files.
maybe context --autopdf=acrobat
context --autopdf=fullacrobat or in a scite user properties file:
if PLAT_WIN name.flag.pdfopen=--autopdf=acrobat
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