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Hello,

Since I installed PDFXChange viewer according to this site with playonlinux, it runs perfectly on my system.

A registration system for writing articles (docear.org) needs to parse arguments to PDFXChange viewer for letting pdf's open on a specific page. I have to specify the command how to do that. According to the documentation of PdfXChange Viewer I have to do this with something like /A "page=20":

playonlinux --run "PDFXCview" test.pdf /A '"page=20"'

This results in opening the file but not on page 20. playonlinux does not seem to redirect the page-argument correctly to the application. Can somebody help me with parsing multiple arguments to PDFXChange viewer using playonlinux?

 

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 (Gnome)

 

Greetings,
DeHollaender

Edited by DeHollaender

If I read the code correctly, playonlinux script calls bash/document_reader script, that interprets its first argument as shortcut name, second one as unix path (that it converts to "Windows path"), and it discards extra arguments.

Maybe bash/document_reader can be fixed like

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Copyright (C) 2007-2010 PlayOnLinux Team
# Copyright (C) 2007 Pâris Quentin

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

WorkingDirectory="$PWD"
[ "$PLAYONLINUX" = "" ] && exit 0
source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/sources"

app="$1"
doc="$2"
shift 2

if [ ! -e "$POL_USER_ROOT/shortcuts/$app" ]; then
    POL_SimpleMessage "$app is not installed."
    echo "$app is not installed."
    exit
fi

if [ "$doc" ]; then
    POL_Debug_Message "App to run: $app"
    POL_Debug_Message "File to run: $doc"

    if [ "${doc::1}" != "/" ]; then
        doc="$WorkingDirectory/$doc"
    fi
    pref="$(POL_Shortcut_GetPrefix "$app")"
    POL_Wine_SelectPrefix "$pref"    
    realpath="$(POL_Wine winepath -w "$doc")"
fi
exec bash "$POL_USER_ROOT/shortcuts/$app" "$realpath" "$@"

I wonder if the problem (lifting the ambiguities around filename parameters) could be solved in a more elegant way...

Thanks for the response! I do not know what you mean with "document_reader"-script. Where can I find it? This issue has definitely to do with passing multiple arguments to the windows application via playonlinux.

 

The following threads have contributed (unsatisfactory) to this problem:

http://www.playonmac.com/en/topic-989.html

http://www.playonmac.com/en/topic-995.html

http://www.playonmac.com/en/topic-2941.html

 

I tried the command in windows installed on a VM and the exactly command should look like this:

PDFXCview.exe /A "page=3" pdffile.pdf

 

Greetings!

Edited by DeHollaender

GitHub, sir. ;)

 

https://github.com/PlayOnLinux/POL-POM-4/blob/master/bash/document_reader

Sorry for answering 3 yo problems. :)

A friends solve this problem here. 

http://lapraszerelt.blogspot.co.id/2016/01/started-exploring-docear-httpwww.html

playonlinux*--run*PDFXCview*/A*page=$PAGE*`winepath -w "$FILE"`

it should be modified according to your current installer calling style though.

In my case, the shortcut is

/usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux --run "PDF-Xchange Viewer" %F

So my setting became

/usr/share/playonlinux/playonlinux*--run*PDF-Xchange Viewer*/A*page=$PAGE*`winepath -w "$FILE"`

I hope this helps. :)