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On 6/26/2013 3:29 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: ............[snip]...................
- 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)
sumatrapdf may be the best PDF viewer ever invented. As a lawyer might say, "I'll stipulate that." If someone who wants to use ConTeXt has never heard of it and has to use a search engine to even know what it is, however, it's not a great default to have on a *public* distribution. Similar arguments could be made for Calibre (which I use).
so, enough reasons for me to have changed the defaults (esp because one can always set different defaults)
That was my original question: how do I change the default without hand-editing a file in the base distribution? That's not only bad practice, it's liable to get overwritten on the "next" update. Does one use texmf.cnf or something else with a very recent MKIV?
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.
I haven't settled on SciTE as the editor I want to use but a SciTE-only workaround misses the point.
maybe context --autopdf=acrobat
context --autopdf=fullacrobat
When run from the cmd.exe command line, acrobat _does_ get launched _but_ it gets launched before ConTeXt has created the pdf file then hangs so the only way to exit is a Ctrl-C in the cmd.exe window. Simply closing acrobat simply causes acrobat to launch again. A better solution would be to assume the person installing ConTeXt does not have a PDF reader *at all* and include some minimal self-contained reader (no dll's needed) in the distribution itself, the way rsync is included. I really don't care which one, as long as there is *something* present. MuPDF might be a good choice but I'm quite sure everyone on the list has a favorite they would like to see as the "included" viewer for one reason or another. As long as ConTeXt is guaranteed to find it, it is a good default.