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 <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 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 <yourfile.tex>
> > context --autopdf=fullacrobat <yourfile.tex>
>
> or in a scite user properties file:
>
> if PLAT_WIN
> name.flag.pdfopen=--autopdf=acrobat
>
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