[OS X TeX] [ANN] TCOBrowser-0.86

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Jul 23, 2005, at 16:29, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 23.07.2005 um 17:54 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell:
>
>
>> I've just released a new TCOBrowser with some bugs fixed, thanks  
>> to feedback from users.  You can download this version at <http:// 
>> tcobrowser.sf.net/>.
>>
>>
>
> Hello!
>
> I am missing the former ability to use Internet Plug-ins to display  
> PDF files directly! The new version opens a dialog to let me choose  
> one of those disgusting Adobe products that swallow up the whole  
> screen -- I can't select TeXShop as PDF viewer. When I abort this  
> action the drawer showing the package's content becomes blank. (And  
> my default browser now displays the PDF file?)

Well, I disabled plugins in a previous version in response to the  
problems you and others were having.  I'm frankly not motivated to  
install Adobe's crapware and try to debug the problem on 10.3.x,  
since I can't even build TCOBrowser on 10.3.x anymore.

I think what should happen is that after you click the link, it gets  
handed over to your default web browser for download; you could  
bypass this by control-clicking on the PDF link to save the file.

>
> When I double-click the PDF symbol in the Rem column my Console shows:

All this should do is hand the URL to the default application for  
that type; if it's http or ftp, it should open in a browser.  It's  
basically the same operation as double-clicking a webloc in the  
Finder.  I can't explain the log messages, but it certainly appears  
to be related to Adobe's plugin.  It would be interesting to know if  
this problem occurs with all applications which use WebKit to display  
web content, or if I'm doing something wrong.

Adam

>
> 2005-07-24 01:14:24.530 TCOBrowser[28306] CFLog (21): Error loading  
> @executable_path/../Frameworks/MSL.framework/Versions/A/MSL:  error  
> code 0, error number 2 (dyld: /Volumes/TCOBrowser/TCOBrowser.app/ 
> Contents/MacOS/TCOBrowser can't open library: @executable_path/../ 
> Frameworks/MSL.framework/Versions/A/MSL  (No such file or  
> directory, errno = 2)
> )
> 2005-07-24 01:14:25.159 TCOBrowser[28306] CFLog (21): Error loading  
> @executable_path/../Frameworks/MSL.framework/Versions/A/MSL:  error  
> code 0, error number 2 (dyld: /Volumes/TCOBrowser/TCOBrowser.app/ 
> Contents/MacOS/TCOBrowser can't open library: @executable_path/../ 
> Frameworks/MSL.framework/Versions/A/MSL  (No such file or  
> directory, errno = 2)
> )
> (variable=3, value=0xbfffb922)
>
> So there is still something trying to use the bad Adobe PDF plug- 
> in ... could be it already happened when I clicked on the View link  
> in the drawer and the dialog appeared. (I think I can't make Adobe  
> Reader 7 *not* to re-install that plug-in ...)




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