On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Pierfranco Minsenti <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I must confess that even in my case (LyX 1.5.4 on Mac Os X 10.3.9), if I
> want to change the default PDF viewer I have to put the whole path to the
> executable. For example, for using the pdf viewer Adobe Reader 7.1.0 for
> Mac
> it works only if I use:
>
> /Applications/Adobe\ Reader\ 7.1.0/Adobe\ Reader\
> 7.1.0.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ Reader
>
> instead if i follow the other suggestions and use:
>
> open -a Adobe Reader 7.1.0
>
> it doesn't work. Nothing happens.


My guess is that you need:

open -a "Adobe Reader 7.1.0"

(with the quotation marks).

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