Re: [Ebib-users] configure external PDF viewer

[Joost K. <joo...@fa...>]

Hi Iliya,

Yeah, MacOS is a bit different in that respect. I don't have 
access to a Mac, so I can't test my suggestion, but I believe the 
correct way to do it would be to use the 'open' command. If you 
simply specify the 'open' command in 'ebib-file-associations', 
then the pdf file will be opened with the default pdf reader on 
your system. If that is set to Skim, then Skim will be used.

If you want to use Skim, even though it is not set as your default 
pdf reader, then you'll need the latest version of Ebib (2.9, 
which I pushed to Github just last night) and specify the 
following as the command to execute:

open /Applications/Skim.app --args %s

Substitute the path to Skim.app with the actual location, of 
course. The '%s' will be replaced with the path of the file you 
want to open.

Note that on MacOS, /Applications/Skim.app is not actually an 
executable file. It's actually a directory containing all the 
files of the relevant program, so using that as the command to 
execute won't work. You can open such applications from the 
command line with 'open', however.

Hope this helps!

Best,

Joost





On Sat, Jan 07 2017, Iliya Lefterov wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I found Ebib  extremely helpful and easy to configure  on a 
> Linux machine; on a Mac platform, however I have a configuration 
> problem: i couldn't find a way to point to Skim as an external 
> PDF viewer… in Ubuntu or Mint it is very easy - evince or okular 
> are found immediately and they work perfectly fine.
>
> I know the problems with the Application folder in MacOS / 
> command line/path, but whatever i do with the location of 
> Skim.app i always get the error message, that “Specified program 
> for new process is a directory”
>
> any idea how to fix it?
>
> Thanks, and Happy New Year
>
> -I.


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