st: using non-acroread viewer for pdf docs

[Hiroyuki Kawakatsu <hkawakat@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I've managed to change the pdf viewer in stata from acroread
to xpdf on linux by modifying the stata_pdf script. I would
really like to have an option to select an alternative pdf
viewer during installation.

For those who prefer xpdf, the modified part of the
stata_pdf script (in your stata installation dir) follows:

#---begin
case "$PDFVIEWER" in
"")     cmd="xpdf"
        ;;
*)      cmd="$PDFVIEWER"
        ;;
esac

case "$1" in
"-page")        pagenum=$2
                fname=$3
                wharg="$pagenum"
                ;;
"-section")     section=$2
                fname=$3
                wharg="+$section"
                ;;
*)              fname="$1"
                wharg=""
                ;;
esac

exec $cmd "$fname" $wharg
#---end of script

h.


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| Business School, Dublin City University
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