[texworks] SCRIPTING: get current poppler page number

[Paul A Norman]

P.S.
 http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=Acrobat9_HTMLHelp&file=IAC_API_AppleEvtObjects.105.1.html#1515777

The adobe page for the Apple Events information, is virtually empty.

Paul

On 21 October 2010 15:40, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> APPLE MAC
>
>  "When opening a PDF document with an Apple Event on a Macintosh
> operating system,
>  you can optionally pass the PDF Open parameters."
>
> What does this mean to a Mac user please? - i.e. what is an "Apple Event"
>
> I tried to search for this  but all I got so far was the kind of Steve
> Jobs - Apple Event that Donald Knuth was having fun about in his iTex
> {ding-a-ling} talk at TUG this year. :)
>
> WINDOWS
>
> Mixing things up I have found that the following kinds of things can
> be done on the command line in  Win32 (and so TwApi.system() ), and if
> acrobat reader 32 is being used, should work on Win64 as well, but I
> can not check.  As outlined Apple Events are able to reproduce the
> following as well according to:
> http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/sdk/pdf/pdf_creation_apis_and_specs/PDFOpenParameters.pdf
>
> This process is very fast (much faster than pdfopen on Xp under
> MiKTex). I need to check for more switches like /A as otherwise we
> need to close and rerun to get a different page number.
>  - but it is fast.  The utility start is required as modern acrobat
> reader does not appear to be on the path, and it can look up acrord32.
>
>     start acrord32 /A "page=17" "D:\LaTeXPortable\LatexUtils\General
> Files\dahdah.pdf"
>
>     start acrord32 /A "page=41&toolbar=0&pagemode=thumbs"
> "D:\LaTeXPortable\LatexUtils\General
> Files\dahdah.pdf"
>
>     start acrord32 /A "page=41&toolbar=0&pagemode=bookmarks&zoom=71"
> "D:\LaTeXPortable\LatexUti
> ls\General Files\blahblah.pdf"
>
> LINUX
>
> Is there a general Linux equivalent bash script to windows acrod32 for
> starting an installed acrobat reader  please? Or is this going to be
> distro by distro? I think on a number of distros  Evince is going to
> try and step in otherwise, and it does not appear to handle the extra
> pdf features that this is all about.
>
> Or could I hope to rely on "pdfopen" to be present on genreal Linux
> distors of TexLive? If so can I just call it directly and pass its
> parametrers to it?
>
> PREFERENCES
>
> Another option
>
> Tw tries to autodetect acrobat reader and/or User sets up a
> prepferences option saying where their installed (and how to call)
> acroread is, and TwScript be able to read it.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 21 October 2010 11:54, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, I think I'll keep at this.
>>
>> Will look around the issue from a different tack.
>>
>> Menawhile line 15 will need changing to work the Script form the
>> preview Script menu
>>
>>  if ((thisDestination != "")& (thisDestination != undefined)) //
>> undefiined for when opening from poppler preview
>>
>> And OS checking to only have "cmd /c" for windows versions (line 35)
>>
>> I'll repost when there is someting more useful at hand.
>>
>> Appreciate any suggestions - insights please.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 21 October 2010 10:33, Matthias Pospiech <matthias.pospiech at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Am 20.10.2010 23:22, schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
>>>>
>>>> However, the implementation of these programs seems to be completely
>>>> different on Windows.  There isn't even a fork() system call and the
>>>> Windows version is using DDE for inter process communication while, as
>>>> far as I understand, the Unix version uses X11 facilities.
>>>
>>> If it uses the DDE commands that Texniccenter had implemented for ages these
>>> work only
>>> for the professional series not the free acrobat reader. Maybe that has
>>> changed for V9
>>> but DDE is not really reliable since all versions of acrobat differ.
>>>
>>> Note that I am not an export on the DDE use of acrobat, this is only what I
>>> learned by using it.
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>
>