Re: evince Evince 2.30.3 command line invocation

[ron abramson gmail com]

On Nov 18, 2010 1:58pm, ron abramson gmail com wrote:
> I just upgraded from 2.28.1 to 2.30.3, in Windows.  I use evince in Windows for, among other things, viewing PDFs created with pdflatex, and I like to use Textpad (a text editor) as a Latex IDE, and launch evince from Textpad as a viewer for the PDF (Textpad also runs pdflatex against the source .tex file, which is how the pdf gets there).
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> Previously, I just did this by configuring a menu command in Textpad to launch evince.exe with parameters to load the newly-created pdf file.  Worked just fine, except that ver. 2.28 had no print capability, so I had to run Acroread when I wanted to print.
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> Version 2.30 of evince in Windows now can print.  So far, so good.
> 
> However, with this version there is no evince.exe program file to be found.  Instead, I find evince.lnk (a Windows shortcut), which leads deep into the bowels of Windows to launch some numbered object with a list of parameters I cannot fathom.  So I can't launch it from Textpad.
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> Question - how, now, to launch evince and load a specifed PDF, from a command line or the like?
> 
> Thanks.

Quick fix: Managed a brute-force hack.  Created evince.bat with start path\to\evince.lnk" %1% and then used the batch file in my TextPad command string.