| Is PDF the only help option in 5.6? [message #34003] |
Tue, 11 February 2003 06:48  |
Eric Williams
Messages: 14
Registered: April 1997
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I really dislike using Acrobat Reader to browse help in IDL now. Is
there an option to get the old hyperlinked help back(last version
before this I used was 5.3)? It was just a quicker, easier to use
interface I feel. Everyone of my users has complained about this also.
Thanks for any tips.
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Eric
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| Re: Is PDF the only help option in 5.6? [message #34037 is a reply to message #34003] |
Thu, 13 February 2003 18:58  |
Jonathan Greenberg
Messages: 91
Registered: November 2002
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Two problems:
1) the pdf files are all in /usr which means I can't see them from the
Finder.
2) I copied those pdf files to my desktop, and lo and behold they were
acrobat files on my desktop. Weird, huh?
--j
On 2/13/03 6:31 AM, in article k-bowman-86C3B6.08315313022003@news.tamu.edu,
"Kenneth Bowman" <k-bowman@null.tamu.edu> wrote:
> In article <BA6FEFD4.1368E%greenberg@ucdavis.edu>,
> Jonathan Greenberg <greenberg@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
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>> Has anyone had a problem with the MacOS X version of IDL/ENVI opening those
>> PDFs in Preview (which does not support hyperlinking, or other Acrobat
>> features)? I can't get it to stop doing this, so it makes the help nearly
>> useless for me unless I copy the help files to my desktop and run them
>> manually...
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> Select a PDF file. Do "Get Info". Under "Open with", change the
> application to Acrobat Reader, then click the button to change the
> default application for all PDF files.
>
> Ken Bowman
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| Re: Is PDF the only help option in 5.6? [message #34048 is a reply to message #34003] |
Wed, 12 February 2003 15:20 |
Jonathan Greenberg
Messages: 91
Registered: November 2002
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No, I don't think so -- but I remember having problems with print preview
the last time I fooled around with the PDF problems (my print previews
started showing up in Preview, not in Acrobat) -- how did you modify this
setting?
--j
On 2/12/03 1:01 PM, "Eric" <radvelmanAT@netscape.net> wrote:
> [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see
> the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]
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> In article <BA6FEFD4.1368E%greenberg@ucdavis.edu>, Jonathan Greenberg
> <greenberg@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone had a problem with the MacOS X version of IDL/ENVI opening those
>> PDFs in Preview (which does not support hyperlinking, or other Acrobat
>> features)? I can't get it to stop doing this, so it makes the help nearly
>> useless for me unless I copy the help files to my desktop and run them
>> manually...
>>
>> --j
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> I don't have this problem. Have you set the default tool to open PDF
> files as Acrobat on your system?
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Jonathan Greenberg
Graduate Group in Ecology, U.C. Davis
http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu/~jongreen
http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu
AIM: jgrn307 or jgrn3007
MSN: jgrn307@msn.com or jgrn3007@msn.com
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| Re: Is PDF the only help option in 5.6? [message #34250 is a reply to message #34003] |
Thu, 27 February 2003 11:03 |
Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995
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"Alexander Rauscher" <e9121161@stud4.tuwien.ac.at> wrote in message
news:Pine.GHP.4.32.0302271101470.14096-100000@stud4.tuwien.a c.at...
> ...it was about both the help and about the non existing
> backwards compatibility of atan (and probably many
> other functions)
"Non-existent backwards compatibility"? "Probably many other functions"?
Yeah right.
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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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