[R-SIG-Mac] Adobe viewer needed?

[Simon Urbanek]

Tim,

I fear that it must be a setting on your Mac - the default is to show the PDF in-ine in the same window (which uses the Preview engine behind the scenes). I suspect that you must have installed the Adobe plugin at some point (or some Adobe software) - OS X doesn't know anything about Adobe until you install some of their products at which point it's actually really hard to reverse the changes their installers make.

Cheers,
Simon


> On Aug 13, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Tim Bates <timothy.c.bates at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> In R.app 3.2.0, doing
> 
> ?function -> index -> vignettes -> pdf
> 
> R.app requests a version of Adobe Reader. I don’t have this installed, but all OS X users have preview.app
> 
> Could the help service be coded to either:
> 1. just open pdfs (that way they’ll be in a stand alone app configured by the user.
> 2. set preview.app as the default in-app viewer?
> 
> 
> my version is 
>               _                           
> platform       x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0   
> arch           x86_64                      
> os             darwin13.4.0                
> system         x86_64, darwin13.4.0        
> status                                     
> major          3                           
> minor          2.0                         
> year           2015                        
> month          04                          
> day            16                          
> svn rev        68180                       
> language       R                           
> version.string R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
> nickname       Full of Ingredients         
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