Re: How to execute xpdf from within an html menu?

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Author: Jared Anderson
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To: plug-discuss
New-Topics: How to view a pdf file from within an html menu?
Subject: Re: How to execute xpdf from within an html menu?
Someone Said:
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>From the command line I can type: xpdf filename.pdf to view a pdf file. 
>Is there a way to execute xpdf from within an html menu? 
>For example with a link similar to these two (which don't work ;)): 
>    <a href="xpdf  filename.pdf">view filename.pdf</a> 
>    <a href="exec xpdf  filename.pdf">view filename.pdf</a> 

>



HTML doesn't have that ability, and shouldn't. However, you can configure browsers to handle such file types in specified ways.
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