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Re: [TeXmacs] Preview in Mac OS X


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  • From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Preview in Mac OS X
  • Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:23:07 +0100

A remark by a collegue of mine in French:

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Dans la plupart des distributions Linux et autres Unix-like modernes, il y a
une commande xdg-open (open tout court étant déjà pris) qui fait à peu près
la même chose. Voir

http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html

pour les détails.
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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:08:01PM +0100, Ingolf Schäfer wrote:
>
> Am 14.12.2010 um 19:45 schrieb Javier Arántegui:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > First of all I want to thank the developers the great job they are doing
> > porting TeXmacs to QT.
> I second that. TeXmacs is great and the QT makes it even better.
> >
> > Second, by default (at least in my installation) TeXmacs/QT uses
> > ghostview to preview documents (File -> Print -> Preview with ghostview).
> > This is quite standard in Linux, but it's not the best option in Macs. It
> > would be much better option to use the Preview.app. To do it, it's quite
> > easy. Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Printer -> Preview command -> Other...
> > and put in the dialog box:
> >
> > /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview
> >
> > (Assuming that Preview.app is in /Applications, usually it is)
> >
> > After that the preview will use Preview.app.
>
>
> >
> > Probably it could be a good default choice for the Mac version.
> I'd say it should default to "open" which would then open the default Mac
> OS X Application for Postscript (could be Preview or Skim or even
> MacGhostview or whatever).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ingolf
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Javier
> >



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