[plug] Adobe acroreader

Michael Holland myk at myk.id.au
Wed Oct 18 21:02:11 WST 2006


On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Dion wrote:

> Google isn't helping me much, so does anyone have any party tricks for
> getting Adobe Acroreader to open a new instance of itself when I try to
> open a second or more pdfs??

the 'acroread' program is a bash script which calls the binary.
So you could probably hack that script to cut out the test for an existing
process. Shouldn't need any programming expertise, just a bit of shell
familiarity.  but I had a quick look, and it isn't trivial.

Mike






More information about the plug mailing list