Re: RFH: non-blocking desktop conforming viewer

2012-08-06 Thread Charles Plessy
> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: > > PDF since format 1.4 has internal compression, meaning that > the other compression does not win a lot at all > We could advise packagers to use dh_compress -X.pdf Le Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 02:06:56PM +0

Re: RFH: non-blocking desktop conforming viewer

2012-08-06 Thread Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard
On 06/08/2012 13:09, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: * forget about compressed documentation PDF since format 1.4 has internal compression, meaning that the other compression does not win a lot at all We could advise pack

Re: RFH: non-blocking desktop conforming viewer

2012-08-06 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Reinhard, > > thanks for your answers > > On Mo, 06 Aug 2012, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> > Unfortunately, xdg-open, at least under gnome, is non-blocking, i.e., >> > immediately returns (in fact it is the underlying gvfs-open that >> >

Re: RFH: non-blocking desktop conforming viewer

2012-08-06 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Reinhard, thanks for your answers On Mo, 06 Aug 2012, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > Unfortunately, xdg-open, at least under gnome, is non-blocking, i.e., > > immediately returns (in fact it is the underlying gvfs-open that > > returns immediately), which makes it impossible to use texdoc > > for

Re: RFH: non-blocking desktop conforming viewer

2012-08-06 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear all, > > I am searching for a method to call a desktop conforming viewer > that is blocking, i.e., that does not immediately return. > > Background: texdoc is the main tool to search for the waste amount > of TeX documentation shipped

RFH: non-blocking desktop conforming viewer

2012-08-06 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear all, I am searching for a method to call a desktop conforming viewer that is blocking, i.e., that does not immediately return. Background: texdoc is the main tool to search for the waste amount of TeX documentation shipped. It supports also zipped (various formats) docs, but needs a viewer t