Re: launching a PDF from a link
In message <570f5c0542...@timil.com> Tim Hill wrote: >In article , Richard Porter > wrote: >I'm expecting to find a utility somewhere which will monitor a specific >folder and filer_run anything saved there but having no luck so far. Talk of monitoring implies something that runs as a task and which stores the state of the folder and only acts when it notes that the state has changed. For a lot less effort you could have a utility that you start yourself, say by doubleclicking on its icon, that simply filer_runs whatever appropriate stuff it finds in the folder. But maybe the whole point of what you are looking for is that it acts automatically without the user having to start it? -- Gavin Wraith (ga...@wra1th.plus.com) Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/
Re: launching a PDF from a link
In article , Richard Porter wrote: > On 28 Jun 2018 Jim Nagel wrote: > > When you click the link for a Jpeg (or various other types of file), > > the file opens immediately. Why does PDF behave differently? What > > is the mechanism involved? > I think that offering a save dialogue is the norm. Netsurf processes > JPEG, GIF and PNG files itself, plus html and text of course, so > there's no need to save them. It's easy to think NetSurf really ought to have to option to Filer_Run any file it doesn't understand after downloading it but it doesn't; it leaves you to do that which is fine up to a point but a shame because it prevents sound and video playing from a link, just as it makes you open your downloaded PDFs 'manually'. I'm expecting to find a utility somewhere which will monitor a specific folder and filer_run anything saved there but having no luck so far. -- Tim Hill timil.com : tjrh.eu : butterwick.eu : blue-bike.uk : youngtheatre.co.uk
Re: launching a PDF from a link
On 28 Jun 2018 Jim Nagel wrote: > When you click the link for a Jpeg (or various other types of file), > the file opens immediately. Why does PDF behave differently? What is > the mechanism involved? I think that offering a save dialogue is the norm. Netsurf processes JPEG, GIF and PNG files itself, plus html and text of course, so there's no need to save them. > And why does the PDF link cause BOTH the download dialogue AND a blank > web page to appear? It doesn't unless there's a target="_new" argument or equivalent and you've got "Allow links to open in new windows" ticked in Choices > Content. BUT It's different if you click on an html link in Messenger Pro. In that case NetSurf always opens a new window and then decides what to do. I raised a feature request about this ages ago, but to no avail. Richard -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
