I'm using Suse Linux which has five program that
will open a pdf file from a shell command line.
Acrobat Reader is one of the five.
A right button click on the file should give a
list of programs that will open a PDF file.
Im using a KDE desktop
Open a shell, add the path to the directory where
the PDF file lives, and on the command line type;
xpdf myfile.pdf ## may also work on a Gnome
## Desktop
or any of these for the KDE desktop;
kpdf myfile.pdf
Kghostview myfile.pdf
konqueror myfile.pdf ## my browser + myfile.
Acrobat Reader is also listed on my system. It
open files as adobe reader using the mouse to
open a pdf file but not from the command line
with an arg, and I haven't spent the time to
figgure out why.
You will have to import os and some combination of
any of the exec.. args, or the popen, spawn, or
system modules.
os.execvep() ## or others like execl, execle ....
os.spawnv(),
os.spawnve(),
os.popen()
hope this give some direction.
jim-on-linux
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 03:44, Jussi Salmela
wrote:
> Grant Edwards kirjoitti:
> > On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Grant Edwards wrote:
> >>> On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>>>> I at least need the code for useing
> >>>>>>> some library for connecting to acrobat
> >>>>>>> reader and giving the print command on
> >>>>>>> windows and some thing similar on
> >>>>>>> ubuntu linux.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Just let the registered .PDF viewer do
> >>>>>> it for you.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> os.start('myfile.pdf')
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Eh? I don't see os.start() it either 2.5
> >>>>> or 2.44 documentation, and it's sure not
> >>>>> there in 2.4.3:
> >>>>
> >>>> My bad. os.system()
> >>>
> >>> That doesn't work either:
> >>>
> >>> $ ls -l user.pdf
> >>> -rw------- 1 grante users 35640
> >>> 2005-11-21 14:33 user.pdf
> >>>
> >>> $ python
> >>> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Dec 10 2006, 22:09:09)
> >>> [GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1,
> >>> ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2 Type
> >>> "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license"
> >>> for more information.
> >>>
> >>> >>> import os
> >>> >>> os.system('user.pdf')
> >>>
> >>> sh: user.pdf: command not found
> >>> 32512
> >>
> >> Works fine on my system. You linux guys
> >> just have it hard. The op said "windows".
> >
> > The posting to which you replied specified
> > Linux.
> >
> >> I can't answer for ubuntu linux but maybe
> >> you can help there?
> >
> > I don't see how. Pdf files just aren't
> > executable.
>
> On Windows, this (where fileName is xyz.PDF,
> for example): webbrowser.open(r'file://' +
> fileName) starts Acrobat Reader with the
> document read in. I have no idea why, because
> Acrobat Reader sure ain't my browser;)
>
> Maybe someone could try this out on Linux.
>
> Cheers,
> Jussi
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