[Papyrus-L] Re: link .pdf files to Pap

[Bob Barrett]

Donald,
    I cannot help with the linking but you may consider the use of  Ghost
rather than Adobe to access the .pdf files. I believe that the use of a PERL
script as an envelope the Papyrus and Ghost interaction may work but I am not
proficient enough at PERL. No doubt Glaswegians are!
    Ghost Script view and Ghostscript are open source and the developers may
help you incorporate the function. One comes from Queensland - beautiful one
day, perfect the next - so they may be too busy swimming.
Bob

========== part text copied from the Introduction follows FYI ========

GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript under MS-Windows, OS/2 and
Unix. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript page description
language
used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document
Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed or printed.
GSview requires Ghostscript 7.04 - 8.99.

Features include:

     Display and print PostScript and PDF files.
     View pages in arbitrary order (Next, Previous, Goto).
     Page size and Orientation are automatically selected from DSC comments or
     can be selected using the menu.
     Print selected pages using Ghostscript.
     Convert pages to bitmap, PDF or PostScript.
     Selectable display resolution, depth, alpha.
     Single button zoom.
    **  Extract selected pages to another file.
     Copy display bitmap to clipboard.
     Save clipboard bitmap as BMP file.
     Add bitmap or user preview to EPS file (Interchange, TIFF or Windows
     Metafile)
     Graphically select and show bounding box for EPS file.
     Extract bitmap preview or PostScript from DOS EPS file.
     Extract text or search for text.
     Can read gzip and bzip2 compressed PostScript and PDF files.
     On-line help.
     Win32, OS/2 and X11/Linux executables. Older versions support Win16.
     Can be run directly off a CD-ROM.
     English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Slovak,
     Spanish and Swedish languages. *** No Scotch ***
     Per user initialisation files for Windows.
     Includes setup program.
     Free (Aladdin Free Public Licence).
     Works with Ghostscript 7.04 - 8.99 (GSview checks the Ghostscript
     version number). Older version of GSview will work with Ghostscript 4.03 -

     6.99.

For Win32,

Obtain GSview (gsv44w32.exe) from

     http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get44.htm

Obtain AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 (gs800w32.exe) from

     http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get800.htm
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Prof Donald M Hadley wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I have Papyrus working in a stable mode on W2K and ME systems with over 47K
> references - I am very reluctant to change. My students use it widely and
> successfully.
>
> Does anyone out there know how to link the a whole journal to a reference
> e.g. can you link a .pdf file to a reference so it can be entered while in
> Papyrus and allow you to open the .pdf automatically so the article can be
> read; then go back to papyrus? It would be great for this to work like an
> attachment on an email.
>
> Could this work through putting the pathway into the comments or one of the
> A, B, or C fileds.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks Dave for a great system its such a pity the development is not
> continuing!
>
> Donald.
>
> Prof Donald M Hadley
> Neuroradiology Department
> Institute of Neurological Sciences
> 1345 Govan Road
> Glasgow  G51 4TF
>
> 0141 201 2119
> 0141 201 2125
>
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