When Netsurf fetches a PDF file, would it be possible to trigger the
PDF-reading application automatically, rather than requiring the user
to save the file to disc and then launch it manually?
(The manual procedure is too complex to explain to a technophobe Other
Half.)
What prompts me to ask is that I came across the following text inside
!PDFtest.Docs.Hints, which is dated 1998-03-24, apparently by Leo
Smiers (who ported the PDF reader from XPDF on Linux; Colin Granville
carried on the work):
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Hints dd 980309
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Starting !PDF from !Fresco version 1.32
It's possible to make Fresco start !PDF when it downloads
a PDF file. To do this, you must add lines to the
!InetSuite.Internet.Files.MimeMap and !Fresco.Runables
files.
In the MimeMap file add the line:
application/pdf PDF ADF .pdf
In !Fresco.Runables (if this file does not exists you have
to create it) add the line:
ADF
Now quit and restart !Fresco. When you view a .pdf file,
Fresco will filer_run the downloaded pdf file. If !PDF has
been seen, it will load and display the page.
Many thanks to Dean Murphy from ANT Ltd. Cambridge from
whom I recieved this information.
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Perhaps this facility exists already in Netsurf and I just don't know
about it.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
