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10.3: Easily view man pages with Preview
Authored by: Drakonian on Nov 02, '03 04:57:05PM

Good hint - one problem is that I find .ps files open in Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 for me by default. (Not sure if I set this setting). Anyone know how to get them to open in Preview, by default? I'm getting around it but converting to PDF on the command line first which seems faster anyway, but just for future reference?



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10.3: Easily view man pages with Preview
Authored by: defpo on Nov 02, '03 06:57:25PM

Right/Control click on a pdf file, and select "get info." Change the "open with" application to Preview and then hit the "change all" button. That should do it.



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10.3: Easily view man pages with Preview
Authored by: DanPritchard on Nov 02, '03 10:24:47PM

Or in this case, "right-click on a PS file" (not a PDF).

Feel free to "manufacture" a "PS" file just by temporarily renaming any file to that, to get this job done, if you don't have any real PS files handy.



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10.3: Easily view man pages with Preview
Authored by: Drakonian on Nov 03, '03 12:53:21AM

Great. Thanks guys. (Slight newbie to OS X here, but I'm loving it.)



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10.3: Easily view man pages with Preview
Authored by: adrianm on Nov 08, '03 09:11:48AM
to open a .ps file in preview regardless of what your defaults are set to, try this:
open -a 'preview' file.ps
of course this works for any named application and file, eg:
open -a 'subethaedit' /etc/hostconfig
and so on...

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