Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

26 Jun 2013


      On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Bill Meahan wrote:
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On 6/26/2013 10:20 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bill Meahan wrote:
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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 .
TYPO: It's l-pdfview.lua sometimes my memory....
From my standalone (updated yesterday)
..[snip]..
if os.type == "windows" then
opencalls = {
        ['default']     = "pdfopen --rxi --file",
        ['acrobat']     = "pdfopen --rxi --file",
        ['fullacrobat'] = "pdfopen --axi --file",
        ['okular']      = 'start "test"
"c:/data/system/kde/bin/okular.exe" --unique', -- todo!
['sumatra']     = 'start "test"
"c:/data/system/sumatrapdf/sumatrapdf.exe" -reuse-instance',
        ['okular']      = 'start "test" "okular.exe" --unique',
['sumatra']     = 'start "test" "sumatrapdf.exe" -reuse-instance
-bg-color 0xCCCCCC',
    }
    closecalls= {
        ['default'] = "pdfclose --file",
        ['acrobat'] = "pdfclose --file",
        ['okular']  = false,
        ['sumatra'] = false,
    }
    allcalls = {
        ['default'] = "pdfclose --all",
        ['acrobat'] = "pdfclose --all",
        ['okular']  = false,
        ['sumatra'] = false,
    }
pdfview.method = "acrobat" -- no longer useful due to green pop up
line and clasing reader/full
    pdfview.method = "sumatra"   <===========================
runner = function(cmd)
        os.execute(cmd) -- .. " > /null"
    end
else
 ..[snip]..
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 


-- 
luigi