Bug 691947

Summary:	Patch to allow external commands
Product:	MuPDF	Reporter:	Daniel Wagenaar <daw>
Component:	apps	Assignee:	Tor Andersson <tor.andersson>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	daw, dsdutkiewicz
Priority:	P4
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Customer:		Word Size:	---
Attachments:	Patch to allow external commands

Description Daniel Wagenaar 2011-02-09 19:25:11 UTC

Created attachment 7227 [details]
Patch to allow external commands

The attached patch adds a new keystroke, "!", to mupdf version 0.7 to run external commands. The first external command is defined in the environment variable "MUPDF_EXTERNAL". By giving the keystroke a numeric prefix, additional external commands may be used. For instance "3!" would run the command defined in environment variable "MUPDF_EXTERNAL3".

As an example of use, you could set "MUPDF_EXTERNAL=lpr" and "MUPDF_EXTERNAL1="pdfdraw". Then, "!" would print the currently loaded file, and "1!" would export its pages as images.

Hope this is helpful,

Daniel Wagenaar
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Daniel Wagenaar
California Institute of Technology
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Pasadena CA 91125
daw@caltech.edu
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Comment 1 Daniel Dutkiewicz 2011-02-14 21:06:06 UTC

this patch's addition of app->filename is similar to my own but i've got a lot more changes and it's a bit less well written 

i'll submit my changes in another bug. that is bug #691965

the main issue is that you need to turn the filename into absolute path via realpath as when mupdf is called like mupdf somename.pdf which i commonly do if i'm opening from the command line (although i do prefix it with 'detach' or as i have it aliased 'd') the filename will not be absolute

Comment 2 Tor Andersson 2011-04-10 13:53:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 691330 ***