Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

26 Jun 2013

      On 6/26/2013 10:20 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
...
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bill Meahan 
mailto:subscribed_lists@meahan.net> wrote:
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.

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Bill Meahan
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