[macosx-unix] Re: using Preview from xterm

George Georgalis george at galis.org
Thu Mar 6 11:29:21 EST 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:19:23PM +0000, Jared ''Danger'' Earle wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2008, at 16:10, George Georgalis wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have some pdf documents to review an it would simplify life
>> if I could invoke Preview from an xterm/X11 environment.
>>
>> Anyone know how?
>
> Sure. "open filename.pdf" or if it needs it "open /Applications/Preview.app 
> filename.pdf"
>
> That'll launch it in OSX's GUI. Of course Preview.app won't run on X, but 
> that's not what you want, is it?

no, "open" works 100% perfect, thanks all!

// George


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