If your on the go in an office environment, PDF files are a must.
I work for the Marine Corps, and use a lot of PDF files, but sadly our computer systems are contracted out to EDS. So no one has rights to install things, and on some machines Adobe isn't there. Sometimes that just puts us in between a rock and a hard place.
GhostView is a great opensource PDF viewer. I believe it would be well worth the time and effort to make it portable. Also why not include Ghost Script so people can also create PDF files. The cost of the Adobe program to create PDF files is outrageous and would be benificial to a lot of people.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
Thank you,
Adam Vincent
USMC
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As you are looking for a PDF viewer I would try Foxit
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
It is completely portable (to my knowladge) and works just great.
Yours
Steve Lamerton
Developer Profile Sync & PortaLog
As far as I know, Foxit write files to the registry and the Application Data folder of Windows.
Perhaps it should be made completely portable?
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FoxIt PDF reader is portable, apparently, and you can use Portable OpenOffice.org to make PDF files.
Can you tell us where GhostView stores its settings?
~nm35 {blog} {personal space}
Unfortunately Foxit is not Free Software or Open Source Software. But it's freeware (which means free of cost) and it works basically...
but everyone uses it.
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R McCue
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I use foxit reader portable, but after several use I don't have found any registry entry
Are you sure? I used regshot to exam foxit reader and found tons of entry, compared with other tiny, non-installed program.
By the way, is there a way to delete all entry from foxit reader?
Can someone write a small program to do that?
I agree it leave several entry in the host PC registry,
Use portable Fx with the pdf plugin. Local files don't bring Fx to a grinding halt, only ones from the internet do.
Vintage!
Scratch that. Fx opens Acrobat reader inside itself.
Vintage!
Here it is, portable GsView:
Yo have to make this tree with installed software:
.\Portable GsView\ghostgum\gsview\*.*
.\Portable GsView\ghostgum\pstotext\*.*
.\Portable GsView\ghostgum\gsview32.ini (down for this)
.\Portable GsView\gs\fonts\*.*
.\Portable GsView\gs\gs8.53\*.*
.\Portable GsView\PortableGsView.exe (compiled PortableGsView.au3 to PortableGsView.exe)
PortableGsView.au3-------------------------------
#NoTrayIcon
$exefile=(@ScriptDir & "\ghostgum\gsview\gsview32.exe")
If FileExists($exefile) Then
EnvSet("GS_VERSION", "8.53")
EnvSet("GSVIEW_VERSION", "4.8")
IniWrite(@ScriptDir & "\ghostgum\gsview32.ini", "GSview-4.8", "GhostscriptDLL",@ScriptDir & "\gs\gs8.53\bin\gsdll32.dll")
IniWrite(@ScriptDir & "\ghostgum\gsview32.ini", "GSview-4.8", "GhostscriptEXE",@ScriptDir & "\gs\gs8.53\bin\gswin32c.exe")
IniWrite(@ScriptDir & "\ghostgum\gsview32.ini", "GSview-4.8", "GhostscriptInclude",@ScriptDir & "\gs\gs8.53\lib;" & @ScriptDir & "\gs\fonts;" & @ScriptDir & "\gs\gs8.53\Resource")
FileCopy(@ScriptDir & "\ghostgum\gsview32.ini",@UserProfileDir,1)
Select
Case $CmdLine[0] = 0
$PID = Run($exefile)
ProcessWaitClose($PID)
Case Else
$PID = Run($exefile & " " & $CmdLine[1])
ProcessWaitClose($PID)
EndSelect
FileCopy(@UserProfileDir & "\gsview32.ini",@ScriptDir & "\ghostgum\",1)
FileDelete(@UserProfileDir & "\gsview32.ini")
Exit
EndIf
MsgBox(0, "Error", "No se encuentra el archivo -> " & $exefile )
Exit
gsview32.ini----------------------------------
[GSview-4.8]
Version=4.8
GSversion=704
Configured=1
GhostscriptDLL=H:\Portable\Visores\Texto\GsView\gs\gs8.53\bin\gsdll32.dll
GhostscriptEXE=H:\Portable\Visores\Texto\GsView\gs\gs8.53\bin\gswin32c.exe
GhostscriptInclude=H:\Portable\Visores\Texto\GsView\gs\gs8.53\lib;H:\Portable\Visores\Texto\GsView\gs\fonts;H:\Portable\Visores\Texto\GsView\gs\gs8.53\Resource
GhostscriptOther=-dNOPLATFONTS -sFONTPATH="c:\psfonts"