18 replies to this topic

[azure]

hello!

when I hover over an area, in the tooltip, the path of a pdf file is displayed

can I display the actual first page of that pdf in the tooltip?

thanks!

[CodeKiller]

hello!

when I hover over an area, in the tooltip, the path of a pdf file is displayed

can I display the actual first page of that pdf in the tooltip?

thanks!

To keep it simple : no.

[CodeKiller]

And he asks in a "ToolTip"...
It means : extract the text from the PDF...

[garry]

an old script to see pdf -files
<!-- m -->http://de.autohotkey... ... 8e47#65201<!-- m -->

[CodeKiller]

Ouch... What a script !!! :shock:
All of that to use PDF...

[azure]

And he asks in a "ToolTip"...
It means : extract the text from the PDF...

no, I mean to show the first page of the pdf when I hover over that area

[azure]

an old script to see pdf -files
<!-- m -->http://de.autohotkey... ... 8e47#65201<!-- m -->

thanks garry

how this script displays pdf files? it should use a pdf rendering library, right?

from a little research I did, MuPDF seems to be the fastest rendering app, so maybe using this to achieve this, will be faster?

[garry]

the pdf or xps files are in a folder , needs lbbrowse3.dll ( ahk_script downloads if not exist )
( small modifications to read also other extensions )
usually I use FoxitReader

TMR     =c:\M_DOCTXT     ;-- your path , here are files pdf / xps
EXT1    =pdf,xps
;......................
LV_Delete()
Loop, %tmr%\*.*, 0, 1
  {
  SplitPath,A_LoopFileFullPath, name, dir, ext, name_no_ext, drive
  If Ext In %ext1%
     LV_Add("",A_LoopFileName,A_LoopFileFullPath)
  }
;......................

( I use FoxitReader )

<!-- m -->http://de.autohotkey... ... 8e47#65201<!-- m -->

[azure]

the pdf or xps files are in a folder , needs lbbrowse3.dll ( ahk_script downloads if not exist )
( small modifications to read also other extensions )
usually I use FoxitReader

TMR     =c:\M_DOCTXT     ;-- your path , here are files pdf / xps
EXT1    =pdf,xps
;......................
LV_Delete()
Loop, %tmr%\*.*, 0, 1
  {
  SplitPath,A_LoopFileFullPath, name, dir, ext, name_no_ext, drive
  If Ext In %ext1%
     LV_Add("",A_LoopFileName,A_LoopFileFullPath)
  }
;......................

I cant find which part of the code exactly reads the pdf document

anyway, I am planning to use MuPDF, as the supposed fastest pdf rendering app, but to complete my project I need to:

1) identify whats under the cursor to trigger appropriately the MuPDF
2) load that specific pdf file to MuPDF

which commands do I need for each?

thanks!

[azure]

isnt there a way to parse a file location to a program and open that file with that program?

also isnt there a way to use on-hover events as triggers?

[azure]

now I only need to "extract" the PATH from hovering over the filename in Windows Explorer

is it possible?