Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de writes:
Hi All,
I would agree that the users default should be respected.
I will have to contradict my last post them.
My suggestion them is to use a system variable such as
ConTeXtViewer. This variable would contain the program to be called.
If it
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Arthur Reutenauer
arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org wrote:
Unfortunately my version of evince doesn't always print correctly a pdf
made by context mkiv
\starttext
$3v$ \par
$3\omega$
\stoptext
When I do print-preview, the math is not shown,
Hi All,
I have been following this thread with some amusement.
There is no real optimal answer to this question short of developing
a dedicated pdfviewer for ConTeXt. But, is this the best use of our resources.
Furthermore, how about a dedicated editor? ;-)) (just joking, but I am
sure somebody
On 6/28/2013 1:46 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
I'll repeat what I said, though: the PDF reader that is (a) most
likely to be installed, and (b) is most logical / least surprising to
the user, is: the user's own default PDF viewer. Adobe Reader may be
clunky for this purpose, but IMO the user's
Hi All,
I would agree that the users default should be respected.
I will have to contradict my last post them.
My suggestion them is to use a system variable such as
ConTeXtViewer. This variable would contain the program to be called.
If it is not set or empty context simply finishes up what
On 6/28/2013 10:56 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Hi All,
I would agree that the users default should be respected.
I will have to contradict my last post them.
My suggestion them is to use a system variable such as
ConTeXtViewer. This variable would contain the program to be called.
If it is
Hi Hans,
I meant a OS system variable. But that actually does not matter.
The default action would be changed to not call a browser!
I agree that nobody should be forced to use autopdf.
Yet, as I understand the discussion there seems to be a need
to add some generality to the method.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.netwrote:
On 6/26/2013 6:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
[snip].
If there is one thing I have learned in developing software since 1965
(not a typo), it is to never depend on *any
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:21 AM, hwit...@gmail.com wrote:
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
On 6/27/2013 9:35 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:21 AM, hwit...@gmail.com
mailto:hwit...@gmail.com wrote:
I likewise find the Sumatr pdf viewer better. Besides the benefits
already mentioned, it also has the proper quality of being
non-intrusive. Adobe
Instead of choosing our own default PDF viewer, we should probably
invoke the user's default PDF viewer. Every OS has a command-line
program to open a file with the system default program:
On OS X:
open myfile.pdf
On Windows:
start myfile.pdf
On Linux, there separate programmes for KDE, new
On Linux, there separate programmes for KDE, new gnome and old gnome,
and desktop-agnostic:
kde-open myfile.pdf || gvfs-open myfile.pdf || gnome-open myfile.pdf
|| xdg-open myfile.pdf
On my linux mint/debian boxes, xdg-open works fine across MATE, XFCE, and
KDE.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:15
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
Instead of choosing our own default PDF viewer, we should probably
invoke the user's default PDF viewer. Every OS has a command-line
program to open a file with the system default program:
On OS X:
open myfile.pdf
On Windows:
start myfile.pdf
On
On 6/27/2013 5:15 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
Instead of choosing our own default PDF viewer, we should probably
invoke the user's default PDF viewer. Every OS has a command-line
program to open a file with the system default program:
On OS X:
open myfile.pdf
On Windows:
start myfile.pdf
On
I am half joking here; don't go down this route.
Why? Users can override defaults, but most don't (and most certainly
not by writing additional code themselves, except for a tiny minority).
Why shouldn't reasonable defaults be provided?
Arthur
...@umich.edu
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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview
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Or, simple read the mailcap preference or use
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Pavneet Arora pavneet_ar...@waroc.comwrote:
Exactly what I was thinking:
pavneet@darjiling:~$ more .mailcap
application/pdf; evince %s
I like evince because it also doesn't lock the PDF file, and
auto-refreshes the view when updated. It also has/can have a
A summary of things people have said in this thread. NB: everything is
paraphrased, so blame me if anything seems overly terse in tone.
Bill doesn't have or want SumatraPDF
Hans made SumatraPDF the default because it has lots of nice
properties that Acrobat doesn't have
Luigi thinks maybe
I'll repeat what I said, though: the PDF reader that is (a) most
likely to be installed, and (b) is most logical / least surprising to
the user, is: the user's own default PDF viewer.
For what it’s worth, as an end user, I agree.
Unfortunately my version of evince doesn't always print correctly a pdf
made by context mkiv
\starttext
$3v$ \par
$3\omega$
\stoptext
When I do print-preview, the math is not shown, and nothing is printed.
As has already been mentioned, this could simply be a font issue, or a
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
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.netwrote:
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
On 6/26/2013 10:20 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bill Meahan
subscribed_li...@meahan.net mailto:subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote:
How does one override the default pdf viewer for MKIV Standalone
on Windows 7-64 so --autopdf starts Acrobat Reader instead
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.netwrote:
On 6/26/2013 10:20 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bill Meahan
subscribed_li...@meahan.netwrote:
How does one override the default pdf viewer for MKIV Standalone on
Windows 7-64 so
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
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
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)
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:22:23PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
while sumatrapdf
- is pretty fast
- has matured quite well
- remembers the current page
- renders quite ok
- even supports some basic interactivity
-
Hi Luigi!
···date: 2013-06-26, Wednesday···from: luigi scarso···
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
while sumatrapdf
- is pretty fast
- has matured quite well
- remembers the current page
- renders quite ok
- even supports some basic interactivity
On 6/26/2013 10:50 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
Hi Luigi!
···date: 2013-06-26, Wednesday···from: luigi scarso···
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
while sumatrapdf
- is pretty fast
- has matured quite well
- remembers the current page
- renders quite ok
- even
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Siep Kroonenberg si...@cybercomm.nlwrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:22:23PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote:
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
while sumatrapdf
- is pretty fast
- has matured quite well
- remembers
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 6/26/2013 10:50 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
Hi Luigi!
···date: 2013-06-26, Wednesday···from: luigi scarso···
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
while sumatrapdf
- is pretty fast
- has
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
···date: 2013-06-26, Wednesday···from: Hans Hagen···
On 6/26/2013 10:50 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
Hi Luigi!
···date: 2013-06-26, Wednesday···from: luigi scarso···
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
while sumatrapdf
- is pretty fast
- has matured
On 6/26/2013 11:27 PM, Bill Meahan wrote:
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.
as mentioned in an earlier mail ... you can set it in a
On 6/26/2013 6:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
[snip].
If there is one thing I have learned in developing software since 1965
(not a typo), it is to never depend on /any /third-party application
being present. If it is not part of the base system
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
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