[clue-tech] Great New Adobe Acrobat Version

[Matt Gushee]

Matt Gushee wrote:
> Keith Hellman wrote:

>> Unfortunately, I haven't seen any FOSS apps that do all of the above:
>> - fullscreen with Next, Prev, and 'b' for blank
>> - reread file when changed on disk
>> Instead it takes a hodgepodge of FOSS + acroread.  Oh well.
> 
> I hear ya. As it happens, I just picked up a copy of the book _PDF 
> Hacks_, which is full of recipes for interesting things you can do with 
> PDF files & their viewers. I'll see if there's anything relevant to this 
> & report back.

Hmm ... doesn't look to promising. You can customize the Acrobat Reader 
interface w/ JavaScript, but apparently the API only handles keyboard 
events in forms ... you could probably create an invisible form with a 
page-sized field, and layer it over every page, but that would probably 
be more trouble than it's worth. And anyway, it's not open source. I'm 
sure gv doesn't support scripting; probably not xpdf either. gpdf? Don't 
know: I tried it a couple months ago; it seemed to have a horrendous 
memory leak, and crashed my X session.

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Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA