[TxMt] Inline PDF

Eric Hsu erichsu at math.sfsu.edu
Mon Feb 7 15:32:54 UTC 2005


At 3:28 PM +0100 2/7/05, Torsten Becker wrote:
>  > Can textmate show pdf files inline?
>
>AFAIK not, but you probably could write a command which opens a
>pdf and then inserts its content as plaintext.

It depends on what you mean by inline. It can web-preview PDF files. 
The key example is the file

<html><head><meta http-equiv="Refresh" 
content="0;URL=file:///tmp/test.pdf"></head><body></body></html>

which previews the PDF file /tmp/test.pdf.  You can be more tricky 
and modify this example to have commands output PDF through the 
'output is HTML' command; an example is the PDF LaTeX in the LaTeX 
Bundle.

I think Allan may eventually make TM open PDF directly as it's pretty 
much there if you have the Schubert PDF Browser Plugin.

What are apple's PDF Replacement Services? I know about the PDF 
Services discussed at <http://www.apple.com/applescript/print/>. If 
you describe what you want to happen, maybe we can collectively 
figure out how to do it.

This little editor is full of surprises!

- Eric
-- 
Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
San Francisco State University
erichsu at math.sfsu.edu
http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu



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