Comments on: PDF annotation under Linux with Wine and PDF-XChange Viewer http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/ Website of François Savard. Topics: software engineering, personal knowledge management (PKM) Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:17:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Francois http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-21243 Francois Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:19:17 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-21243 Hi naught, thank you for posting your version.

(I’ll leave both comments there otherwise there’s a lack of context)

]]> By: naught101 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-21216 naught101 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:34:57 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-21216 Sorry, delete the last comment, here is the proper script I’m using:


#!/bin/bash

# Adapted from:
# http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/
# http://www.fsavard.com/flow/20.....ge-viewer/

# Purpose: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style
# to pass as an argument to wine when starting PDF XChange Viewer
abspath=$(readlink -f $1)
Filename="z:"${abspath//\//\\}
echo $Filename
#assuming you use the default installation folder for PDF
# XChange Viewer in Wine
eval wine 'C:\\Program\ Files\\Tracker\ Software\\PDF\ Viewer\\PDFXCview.exe' "'$Filename'"

]]> By: naught101 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-21215 naught101 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:31:05 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-21215 (NOTE: correction comment by naught101 below)

Awesome, thanks for the starter script. I’m using a modification, posting here for reference:

#!/bin/bash

# Adapted from:
# http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/
# http://www.fsavard.com/flow/20.....ge-viewer/

# Purpose: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style
# to pass as an argument to wine when starting PDF XChange Viewer
abspath=$(readlink -f $1)
Filename=”z:”${abspath//\//\\}

#assuming you use the default installation folder for PDF
# XChange Viewer in Wine
wine ‘C:\Program Files\Tracker Software\PDF Viewer\PDFXCview.exe’ “‘$Filename’”

]]> By: prosist http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-19415 prosist Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:48:48 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-19415 thank you very much!

]]> By: Francois http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-17725 Francois Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:57:41 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-17725 Hi Venkat. Thanks for the ‘shell extensions’ tip, I’ll have to try it. To be honest XChange Viewer is the only program I use through Wine so I never really took the time to learn about Wine in general… maybe I would’ve saved some time, actually, doing that.

]]> By: Venkat http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-17724 Venkat Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:53:01 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-17724 Hi Francois,

I got here through google.

Fantastic tip. Thanks for solving one of my pet peeves on Linux.

I’m using ubuntu-10.10 x86-64 and I don’t even need the openpdf.sh script to start. I installed the Xchange viewer with shell extensions and it automatically shows up in Nautilus. Great.

]]> By: Francois http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-16330 Francois Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:09:54 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-16330 Hi Tshann,

I remember having searched a lot of time (with lots of episodes of giving up to try a few months later) for a Linux-native app with solid highlighting and commenting feature. I was just happy to find anything at all (open source or not), but the free version does much more than I ever wanted for annotation, anyway.

The only downside for me is that under Wine it loses my config upon restart, so I have this 30-second routine where I reload it and set windows right etc. I don’t use Wine for anything else… I guess at some point I’ll figure out the problem had a simple fix :)

Thank you for passing by.

]]> By: Tshann http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-16301 Tshann Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:34:11 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-16301 Hi,
Been using this product for years in linux – works better than anything that is possible in linux – unfortunately. I’m using it now in my Debian Squeeze distro – Crunchbang Statler. But I’ve used it in all my distro’s and it works great in all of them. I have a few business machines – use it in those rigs as well. FAR better than Adobe Pro – tiny footprint and does virtually everything that Adobe does – without being a pig. The cost of buying (if you need some of the basic features) is reasonable as well. But for most, the simple free version will suffice. AWESOME product. I only wish other essential windows software worked as well in wine.

]]> By: Francois http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-15060 Francois Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:01:34 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-15060 Hi Paulo, thanks for the comment; happy to see that setup is still working in newer OSes. For others who’d like to use it on Ubuntu 10.10, could you specify what changes you made?

]]> By: Paulo Polito http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/comment-page-1/#comment-14967 Paulo Polito Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:14:06 +0000 http://www.fsavard.com/flow/?p=401#comment-14967 Thank you for the info. Works fine in Ubuntu 10.10 64, just needs editing the $App directory structure.

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