[tex-live] TeX Live 2011 & PS_View

[Shriramana Sharma]

Properly designed installation wizards on Windows especially of open-source
software do ask before re-assigning associations. GIMP is a good example.

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On Mar 16, 2012 5:44 PM, "Reinhard Kotucha" <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:

> On 2012-03-16 at 06:50:45 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
>
>  > On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>  >
>  > > Norbert Preining wrote:
>  > >> On Fr, 16 Mär 2012, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>  > >>> You can run the programs ftype and assoc *without any
>  > >>> arguments* on the command line.
>  > >>
>  > >> Can you be a bit more specific to Phil and tell him what he
>  > >> should search for? Thanks
>  > >>
>  > > Not really much point, since it was easy to find what
>  > > was needed (after first removing my naive user's hat),
>  > > and it told me all was well, since acting on Siep's
>  > > advice I had already expunged tlpsv.win32 :-)
>  >
>  > Ok, Phil. Have you ever tried it to preview PostScript files, or
>  > even pdf with so arbitrary zoom (just to see some subtle things not
>  > diplayed in AcrobatReader)?
>
> I can understand that people prefer PDF viewers which support all the
> PDF-related features which ghostscript doesn't support, such as
> bookmarks and hyperlinks.
>
> The main reason I wanted to have PSView in TeX Live is that Microsoft
> doesn't provide a PostScript viewer at all.  It's quite powerful and
> was written with TeX in mind.  Thus, integration into TeX Live was
> possible without much effort.
>
> Hence, I don't see any reason not to set file associations for ps and
> eps.  Of course, it shouldn't happen without asking the user.  But I'm
> unsure regarding the wizard installer.  Isn't it for those who don't
> want to be asked?
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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> Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is
> NO.
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