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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
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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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