Re: st: How to open a .pdf outside Stata with a Stata command

[Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com>]

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Ah, I havent reproduced this on a PC, but the command line appears to be of this structure:

<Acrobat path> /A "<parameter>=<value>" "<PDF path>"

take a look at this manual and replace the mac shell commands with the PC commands:

http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters.pdf




Good luck.

- Eric


On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Richard Svensson <richard.svensson@gu.se> wrote:

> Thanks,
> Unfortunately I missed out to mention one important detail:
> I'm trying to solve this on a PC.
> 
> Richard
> 
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> Subject: Re: st: How to open a .pdf outside Stata with a Stata command
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> Also, preview.app will re-open the new pdf along with the old pdf if you run this command repeatedly, but other OSX pdf readers (adobe, sumatra, skim) may need to close first, or you may not want both the old and new versions of the pdf to open simultaneously in Preview.app -- either way, consider including an 'osascript' shell command to control closing programs or documents that are already open.  Adding this line to the -openmypdf- program I suggested would do the trick:
> 
> 	!osascript -e 'tell application "Preview.app" to quit'
> 
> If you are doing a lot of this type of control of programs outside of Stata on OSX, consider learning the very useful open scripting (osa) commands for terminal.
> 
> - Eric
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> <>
>> 
>> On a mac, just write a program that sends the 'open' command to the terminal , so :
>> 
>> cap program drop openmypdf
>> program define openmypdf
>> syntax anything
>> 	!open -a Preview.app "`anything'"
>> end
>> 
>> 
>> openmypdf myfile.pdf
>> 
>> 
>> would work.  Or make the program more general to any file (which utilizes the default program in the OS to open the file) with something like:
>> 
>> 
>> cap program drop openmacfile
>> program define openmacfile
>> syntax anything
>> 	!open  "`anything'"
>> end
>> 
>> openmacfile myfile.docx
>> 
>> 
>> or just put the command in your do-file:   !open  "myfile.ext"
>> 
>> P.S. the toy commands you mention to use iTunes, etc. on a mac from 
>> Stata are here:  http://www.eric-a-booth.com/Home/software
>> 
>> - Eric
>> __
>> eric.a.booth@gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 18, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Richard Svensson <richard.svensson@gu.se> wrote:
>> 
>>> I read about a user-written program that enable the Stata-user to control iTunes on a Mac computer, and another program that makes it possible to Google-search inside Stata. So it seems that it's possible (at least on Mac) to control other softwares from Stata.
>>> 
>>> What I am looking for, or trying to write, is a Stata-command that open a file (.pdf) outside Stata.
>>> 
>>> Do you know of any way to solve this? Or do you know where I might 
>>> find information about this in my struggle with this problem? Any important key words that might help me?
>>> 
>>> Richard Svensson
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