Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Opening file with acrord in windows

[Aditya M. <adi...@al...>]

>>> On May 20, Srinath Avadhanula wrote

> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>>   It turns out that the error occurs because acrobat reader does not
>> recognize the directory from which it was launched. This is easy to
>> see. CD to a directory having a pdf file, say test.pdf and on command
>> prompt type
>> acrord32 file.pdf
>
> This is pretty strange. On my system (windows XP + Adobe Acrobat Reader
> 5.0), if I have the reader open (but without the file) and if I issue
> a command like
>
>    AcroRd32 file.pdf
>
> from a command prompt after cd'ing to the directory containing the file,
> Acrobat does correctly launch the file...
>

I also found this to be strange. In my system (Windows XP + Acrobat 
Reader 6.0) when I cd to a directory containing a pdf file and issue a 
command

  acrord32 file.pdf

acrobat reader correctly shows the file. Now if I close the file 
(without closing acrobat reader) and again issue the same command on 
the command prompt

  acrord32 file.pdf

I get an error saying "There was an error opening the document. The 
file cannot be found". I have tested this on three systems, all 
windows XP and acrobat reader 6.0. Maybe this is a bug that crept into 
acrobat reader in the latest version :-(


>> Note that I have changed "%:p:t:r" to "%:p:r" so that mainfname points
>> to the complete path of the file.
>>
>> Now \lv calls
>>   :!start Acrord32 "complete_path_to_file/file.pdf"
>> and the file shows correctly. Also the filename is surrounded with
>> quotes, so everything should be fine.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, there are a LOT of issues when doing this. For one,
> enclosing the file name in quotes doesn't work on some systems when the
> the actual shell command is interpreted by bash or similar which quotes
> the command... Escaping on the other hand works in *nix but not on
> windows...
>
How about something like
if has('win32')
  something
else
  something else
endif

I know that this will unnecessarily complicate the code. So if you do 
not want to include it in the main branch, I will simply make a change 
in my local files.

Aditya