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Hello everyone,

how can I allow KPDF to start external programs out of pdf files?
By default it won't allow this.

Thanks in advance,
Nikolai

You can embed links in your pdf documents.
i.e link to a shell script which starts mplayer.
I'm using this in talks to start external programs i.e. show a movie.

KPDF didn't allow this and babbled something of security concerns which is in fact correct but since I am the author of the document I think I'm able to trust myself. So I thought there was an option to enable this again.

I don't think kpdf allows links at all.

I just played around a bit :

KPDF seems only to have quirks with
\href{run:

Other linking methods i.e. mailto: or html work.

Direct linking with run: to the movie path
\href{run:somemovie.mpg}{Movie}
might work since kaffeine started but without the movie.

But generally this is not an option.
I want to give the movie special parameters i.e. resize it and
run with different fps. Therefore I need to run it through a script.

So does anyone know if the behaviour of kpdf can be changed or
is this a general shortcoming?

But nevertheless, thank you very much for your help so far.

Thank you Rinse.
I wanted to do this in the first place but couldn't find the homepage
of kpdf.