Re: Vindaloo - open a PDF from the command line

[Markus Hitter]

Am 15.04.2010 um 08:30 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:

> Certainly not all applications on OSX will open command line  
> arguments as documents (I just tried TextEdit which does, and  
> MuseScore which doesn't)  but that might just be because some apps  
> don't support the standard mechanisms for opening documents (eg.  
> this feature might only work for apps using NSDocumentController).

On Mac OS X, you use "open <documentname>" with the optional  
parameter pair "-a <applicationname>. This is an equivalent to double- 
clicking a document, so it should be supported by all applications  
handling documents.


Markus

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