iReport 2.05, problem with external viewer

[Henry]

Hello,

 

i try to switch from verion 2.04 to 2.05. I have some problems with the exteral viewers (e.g. for pdf or html).

 

I got an error messages like this.

 

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In the console window from iReport i got the normal message.

 

Executing: /opt/kde3/bin/kpdf "/OVOReports/work/iReport/compiler/Call_OVOReports-A4Landscape.pdf"

 

 

With iReport 2.04 it works normal.

 

Regards, Henry

Post edited by: Henry, at: 2008/04/09 15:00

[augui]

Hi,

 

I have the same problem,

any ideas how to come around this problem?

[Henry]

Hello,

 

the same problem with iReport 3.0.0.

 

Someone else with the same problem or with a solution?

 

Henry

[sledgeas]

Hello, same problem here (iReport 3.0.0) on

Red Hat EL 5 (evince and others)
Windows (XP) (Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Could you please fix this bug? iReport tutorial will soon be applied for use for many end-users, thus such bug is really frustrating.

Thank you,

--
sledge

[sledgeas]

Hello, same problem here (iReport 3.0.0) on

Red Hat EL 5 (evince and others)
Windows (XP) (Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Could you please fix this bug? iReport tutorial will soon be applied for use for many end-users, thus such bug is really frustrating.

Thank you,

--
sledge

[Henry]

Hello,

since i changed from iReport 2.04 to a higher version I have this problem. Also with iReport-nb 3.14.

Now i figured out a "solution" that works fine for me.

The Problem are the double quotes that enclosed the file name.

Executing: /usr/bin/acroread "/OVOReports/work/iReport-nb/reports/Test/Test.pdf"

The way like iReport calls the viewers, the viewers interpreted the double quotes as a part of the file name.

It works if you call the viewer manually from a shell. Because the shell interprets and removes the double quotes.

I have wrote a small shell script that removes the double qoutes and calls the viewer.

 

# CallViewer.sh

 

Viewer=`echo $1 | sed -e 's/^"//' | sed -e 's/"$//'`

File=`echo $2 | sed -e 's/^"//' | sed -e 's/"$//'`

 

"$Viewer" "$File" &

 

Inside iReport I configured CallViewer.sh with the viewer as argument.

/OVOReports/work/Scripts/CallViewer.sh "/usr/bin/acroread"

iReport added the file name on the end (with enclosed double quotes)

Executing: /OVOReports/work/Scripts/CallViewer.sh "/usr/bin/acroread" "/OVOReports/work/iReport-nb/reports/Test/Test.pdf"

CallViewer.sh removes the double quotes from the first and second argument (Viewer and File) and calls as a shell script the viewer with the file name. Note that the double quotes in "$Viewer" "$File" & interpreted by the shell and not part from the arguments.

Regards, Henry