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I've bottomed out a few ways to access the pdf documentation directly from the Max menubar - both methods involve dropping a patch in the 'extras' folder - one uses a html links page via a jitter object and the other (neater) uses the 'shell' external - all's fine there - but it's gettin' a bit messy in there (the extras menu).......

... is there a way to augment the max menus with a new menu item (ie not go back to basic 4 + new one ... as menubar does) and is there a nice way to directly view a pdf that is not reliant on an external (currently passing an open filereference to the shell in a self closing patch, so it's neat enough - but not portable)

..it'd be nice if they could be squeezed onto that Help menu in the menu bar ... possible ? anyone ?

menubar-launching-apps

maybe I don't understand the question, but doesn't jit.qt.movie read

> I've bottomed out a few ways to access the pdf documentation directly from the Max menubar - both methods involve dropping a patch in the 'extras' folder - one uses a html links page via a jitter object and the other (neater) uses the 'shell' external - all's fine there - but it's gettin' a bit messy in there (the extras menu).......

> ... is there a way to augment the max menus with a new menu item (ie not go back to basic 4 + new one ... as menubar does) and is there a nice way to directly view a pdf that is not reliant on an external (currently passing an open filereference to the shell in a self closing patch, so it's neat enough - but not portable)

> ..it'd be nice if they could be squeezed onto that Help menu in the menu bar ... possible ? anyone ?

maybe I don't understand the question, but doesn't jit.qt.movie read
pdf files, with frame control of pages?

On 23/10/2007, scotty  wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I've bottomed out a few ways to access the pdf documentation directly from the Max menubar - both methods involve dropping a patch in the 'extras' folder - one uses a html links page via a jitter object and the other (neater) uses the 'shell' external - all's fine there - but it's gettin' a bit messy in there (the extras menu).......
>
> ... is there a way to augment the max menus with a new menu item (ie not go back to basic 4 + new one ... as menubar does) and is there a nice way to directly view a pdf that is not reliant on an external (currently passing an open filereference to the shell in a self closing patch, so it's neat enough - but not portable)
>
> ..it'd be nice if they could be squeezed onto that Help menu in the menu bar ... possible ? anyone ?
>
> pointers appreciated
>
> cheers
>

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Thanks - I didn't know about that - i'll have a look to see if it improves matters - however, searching a pdf with the drawer in mac osx preview app is pretty handy, i guess it won't have a similar index page in that implementation

anyway thanks again for the pointer, good to know it's there - i'll certainly investigate

> is there a nice way to directly view a pdf that is not reliant on an

yes use the launchbrowser message to Max:

You need to know the complete path though...

It will open whatever application is assigned to the file type. Works on 

scotty schrieb:
> is there a nice way to directly view a pdf that is not reliant on an
> external

It will open whatever application is assigned to the file type. Works on 
Mac and on Windoof...

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many thanks / danke
i will investigate, sounds promising


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