Launch pdf on cd

[Stephen Van Esch]

Chipp:

Thanks for this. One thing. As I understand it, CARO
is associated with Acrobat. I'm assuming that
substituting the creator type for Preview will work
equally well.

I do own a copy of altBrowser and my backup plan is to
convert the pdf to HTML and use that. If Safari
displayed pdfs within the browser, altBrowser would
probably be my first choice.

Thanks again.

Steve

--- Chipp Walters <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jan for the altBrowser plug. But, as much as
> I'd like to sell 
> another copy of altBrowser, there's a way to do this
> on MacOSX. Launch 
> works well on PC, but for MacOS X you need to do a
> little extra work:
> 
> on viewPDF_MacOSX pPDFpath
>    if "AppleScript" is not among the lines of the
> alternateLanguages then
>      answer "AppleScript must be installed."
>      exit to top
>    end if
>    put revMacFromUnixPath(pPDFpath) into pPDFpath
> 
>    --> THIS ASSUMES YOU'VE JUST DOWNLOADED A .PDF
> FILE
>    --> AND THE CREATOR AND FILETYPE AREN'T PROPERLY
> SET
>    put "tell application " &quote& "Finder" & quote
> & cr into tScript
>    put "set the creator type of file " &quote&
> pPDFpath &quote& \
>        " to " &quote& "CARO" &quote& cr after
> tScript
>    put "set the file type of file " &quote& pPDFpath
> &quote& \
>        " to " &quote& "PDF " &quote& cr after
> tScript
>    put "end tell" after tScript
>    do tScript as Applescript
>    put the result into sError
> 
>    put "tell application " &quote& "Finder" & quote
> & cr into tScript
>    put "open file " &quote& pPDFpath &quote & cr
> after tScript
>    put "end tell" after tScript
>    do tScript as Applescript
>    put the result into sError
> 
> end viewPDF_MacOSX
> 
> 
> Jan Schenkel wrote:
> > --- Stephen Van Esch <vanesch at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>Folks:
> >>
> >>I've searched through the archives and haven't
> found
> >>a
> >>satisfactory answer. Here's what I'd like to do:
> >>
> >>When a user clicks a link, I'd like the PDF viewer
> >>(Acrobat or Preview) to launch and display a
> >>specified
> >>pdf located on the CD.
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