| Re: Adobe Reader 7.0 in IDL ? [message #43451] |
Thu, 14 April 2005 17:52 |
Ken Mankoff
Messages: 158
Registered: February 2000
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Michael Wallace wrote:
> Sean Davis wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running IDL 6.1 under linux, and just upgraded to Adobe
>> Reader 7.0. Under the new Adobe Reader, the plugin
>> rsiidl_linux_x86.api does not work and I am therefore unable to
>> access the IDL help index. Any thoughts on this? I suppose RSI
>> will get around to creating a plugin for Adobe Reader 7 at some
>> point.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sean
>
> You can even go one step further by sending the Windows help file
> through a CHM -> HTML converter and putting the HTML pages online.
> That's probably a bit overkill, tho. ;-)
If you want the IDL help in HTML, you can get it with IDLWAVE. You
don't have to be an emacs and/or IDLWAVE user. Just take the help
files and view them in your favorite browser, which might just be w3m.
You might even be able to override the "?" command (or make a new
command) that opens the correct file in your browser.
-k.
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http://spacebit.dyndns.org/
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| Re: Adobe Reader 7.0 in IDL ? [message #43452 is a reply to message #43451] |
Thu, 14 April 2005 16:22  |
Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003
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Sean Davis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running IDL 6.1 under linux, and just upgraded to Adobe Reader 7.0.
> Under the new Adobe Reader, the plugin rsiidl_linux_x86.api does not work
> and I am therefore unable to access the IDL help index. Any thoughts on
> this? I suppose RSI will get around to creating a plugin for Adobe Reader
> 7 at some point.
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
Well, the easy solution to to keep using the old Adobe Reader. But
there is another way to skin this cat. I gave up using the PDF files
long ago. Instead, I use xCHM (http://xchm.sourceforge.net) with the
IDL Windows Help file. I like this much better than trying to navigate
the PDFs. Just find the file idl.chm in a Windows distribution and copy
that file to some convenient location on your Linux box. Install xCHM,
if you don't have it already, and viola! you're reading a Windows Help
file on Linux.
You can even go one step further by sending the Windows help file
through a CHM -> HTML converter and putting the HTML pages online.
That's probably a bit overkill, tho. ;-)
-Mike
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