Re: [Gnumed-devel] printing on Windows/Mac

[Karsten Hilbert]

Please test the attached on a Mac.

Karsten

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:49:44PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] printing on Windows/Mac
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> 
> On 2010-01-16, at 1:14 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> 
> > Jim, what is the equivalent call sequence for Acrobat Reader
> > on Mac ?
> 
> The call sequence for any Mac binary application is
> 
>       open -a <appName> followed by optional filename argument
> 
>       open -a <appName> <filename>
> 
>       open -a Adobe\ Reader <filename>
> 
> however, as mentioned Adobe Reader will open only PDF. More advisable on the 
> Mac would be to bypass specifying the app name and doing simply:
> 
>       open <filename>
> 
> which, in the case of PDFs (and postscript) files, will open Preview, whereas 
> in the case of .txt and .rtf files the Mac will open TextEdit and so on.
> 
> (where a file type is as-yet unrecognized on Mac, the command line will yield
> 
>       'No application knows how to open "fullySpecifiedFilename'
> 
> whereas when called from the GUI the user gets presented with the dialog with 
> button through which to be able to define an application association.)
> 
> -- Jim
> 
> 
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