Re: PointAndClick on Windows

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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>> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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>>>> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>>> No.  It does not depend on the viewer, it depends on the operating
>>>>> system and the installed editors.
>>>>
>>>> I disagree.  You can't click on links in a PDF file without involving a
>>>> viewer, so calling the problem viewer-independent does not make any
>>>> sense.
>>>>
>>>> For example, I use Emacs as an editor.  Using xpdf as PDF viewer,
>>>> point-and-click works for me.  Using Evince, it doesn't.
>>>>
>>>> That's hardly viewer-independent behavior.
>>>
>>> Is this on Windows?
>>
>> In light of your categoric statement "It does not depend on the viewer",
>> this question makes only sense if you can only consider something to be
>> a PDF viewer when running on Windows.
>
> Sigh.  Did you notice the title of my post?

So your sentence "it depends on the operating system" was meant to refer
to the difference between Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 and so on?
It would have been less confusing then if you had phrased this as
"Windows version" rather than "operating system".

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David Kastrup