RE: Thank you for View-Update
Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context-menu, select Open with... - One level deeper, choose Choose default program... - In my situation, the PDF-viewer TeXworks is visible, if you check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file then it will work, since TeXworks doesn't lock the PDF down. - If you don't see TeXworks, try to find it first by browsing to it, from then on it will be in the menu - If you want to go back to Acrobat, follow the same route. Good luck, Roel Schipper -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of Bob Alvarez Sent: maandag 9 september 2013 18:15 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Cc: sl...@troubleshooters.com Subject: Re: Thank you for View-Update Importance: Low Thank you very much for View-Update (Ctrl+Shift+R). It's been in LyX for many, many versions, but now it works, and it's a great help in keeping the PDF I'm proofreading in sync with the file I'm modifying. On my Windows 7 system the pdf viewer does not allow updates to the file. Lyx gives me the error message: I can't write on file ... Does anyone know a way around this? Bob
Re: Thank you for View-Update
pdfview (as used here) is a custom application designed to use the system default reader while avoiding file lock problems. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/WindowsInstaller-pdfview for source. If it no longer works, maybe someone should have a look at updating it. Paul
Re: Thank you for View-Update
On 11/09/2013 4:44 a.m., Bob Alvarez wrote: On 9/10/13 1:09 AM, Roel Schipper - CITG wrote: Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context-menu, select Open with... - One level deeper, choose Choose default program... - In my situation, the PDF-viewer TeXworks is visible, if you check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file then it will work, since TeXworks doesn't lock the PDF down. - If you don't see TeXworks, try to find it first by browsing to it, from then on it will be in the menu - If you want to go back to Acrobat, follow the same route. Good luck, Roel Schipper Thanks, that does work but TexWorks is a limited program, for example it does not seem to show bookmarks in pdf documents, so as you mention I would have to switch back and forth. I tried to change the defaults for pdf viewer in Tools|Preferences|File Handling|File formats and then selecting PDF in the Format dropdown menu. The default in the Viewer: dropdown list is pdfview, which seems to choose the system default viewer. I tried selecting Custom and the entering the path to the texworks program but that does not work. The message box at the bottom of the Lyx window says successful preview ... but the Texworks program does not open. I even tried using the shortened path with no spaces with no luck. C:\Progra~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\miktex-texworks.exe Does anyone know how to set the Lyx pdf viewer to be different from the system default? Bob With LyX 2.0.6 and Windows Vista, I changed the Viewer slot to Custom and in the right slot put texworks, just the name with no path. Using the View button successfully brought up the Texworks pdf viewer. Andrew
Re: Thank you for View-Update
On 9/10/13 1:09 AM, Roel Schipper - CITG wrote: Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context-menu, select Open with... - One level deeper, choose Choose default program... - In my situation, the PDF-viewer TeXworks is visible, if you check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file then it will work, since TeXworks doesn't lock the PDF down. - If you don't see TeXworks, try to find it first by browsing to it, from then on it will be in the menu - If you want to go back to Acrobat, follow the same route. Good luck, Roel Schipper Thanks, that does work but TexWorks is a limited program, for example it does not seem to show bookmarks in pdf documents, so as you mention I would have to switch back and forth. I tried to change the defaults for pdf viewer in Tools|Preferences|File Handling|File formats and then selecting PDF in the Format dropdown menu. The default in the Viewer: dropdown list is pdfview, which seems to choose the system default viewer. I tried selecting Custom and the entering the path to the texworks program but that does not work. The message box at the bottom of the Lyx window says successful preview ... but the Texworks program does not open. I even tried using the shortened path with no spaces with no luck. C:\Progra~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\miktex-texworks.exe Does anyone know how to set the Lyx pdf viewer to be different from the system default? Bob
RE: Thank you for View-Update
Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context-menu, select Open with... - One level deeper, choose Choose default program... - In my situation, the PDF-viewer TeXworks is visible, if you check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file then it will work, since TeXworks doesn't lock the PDF down. - If you don't see TeXworks, try to find it first by browsing to it, from then on it will be in the menu - If you want to go back to Acrobat, follow the same route. Good luck, Roel Schipper -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of Bob Alvarez Sent: maandag 9 september 2013 18:15 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Cc: sl...@troubleshooters.com Subject: Re: Thank you for View-Update Importance: Low Thank you very much for View-Update (Ctrl+Shift+R). It's been in LyX for many, many versions, but now it works, and it's a great help in keeping the PDF I'm proofreading in sync with the file I'm modifying. On my Windows 7 system the pdf viewer does not allow updates to the file. Lyx gives me the error message: I can't write on file ... Does anyone know a way around this? Bob
Re: Thank you for View-Update
pdfview (as used here) is a custom application designed to use the system default reader while avoiding file lock problems. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/WindowsInstaller-pdfview for source. If it no longer works, maybe someone should have a look at updating it. Paul
Re: Thank you for View-Update
On 11/09/2013 4:44 a.m., Bob Alvarez wrote: On 9/10/13 1:09 AM, Roel Schipper - CITG wrote: Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context-menu, select Open with... - One level deeper, choose Choose default program... - In my situation, the PDF-viewer TeXworks is visible, if you check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file then it will work, since TeXworks doesn't lock the PDF down. - If you don't see TeXworks, try to find it first by browsing to it, from then on it will be in the menu - If you want to go back to Acrobat, follow the same route. Good luck, Roel Schipper Thanks, that does work but TexWorks is a limited program, for example it does not seem to show bookmarks in pdf documents, so as you mention I would have to switch back and forth. I tried to change the defaults for pdf viewer in Tools|Preferences|File Handling|File formats and then selecting PDF in the Format dropdown menu. The default in the Viewer: dropdown list is pdfview, which seems to choose the system default viewer. I tried selecting Custom and the entering the path to the texworks program but that does not work. The message box at the bottom of the Lyx window says successful preview ... but the Texworks program does not open. I even tried using the shortened path with no spaces with no luck. C:\Progra~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\miktex-texworks.exe Does anyone know how to set the Lyx pdf viewer to be different from the system default? Bob With LyX 2.0.6 and Windows Vista, I changed the Viewer slot to Custom and in the right slot put texworks, just the name with no path. Using the View button successfully brought up the Texworks pdf viewer. Andrew
Re: Thank you for View-Update
On 9/10/13 1:09 AM, Roel Schipper - CITG wrote: Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context-menu, select Open with... - One level deeper, choose Choose default program... - In my situation, the PDF-viewer TeXworks is visible, if you check Always use the selected program to open this kind of file then it will work, since TeXworks doesn't lock the PDF down. - If you don't see TeXworks, try to find it first by browsing to it, from then on it will be in the menu - If you want to go back to Acrobat, follow the same route. Good luck, Roel Schipper Thanks, that does work but TexWorks is a limited program, for example it does not seem to show bookmarks in pdf documents, so as you mention I would have to switch back and forth. I tried to change the defaults for pdf viewer in Tools|Preferences|File Handling|File formats and then selecting PDF in the Format dropdown menu. The default in the Viewer: dropdown list is pdfview, which seems to choose the system default viewer. I tried selecting Custom and the entering the path to the texworks program but that does not work. The message box at the bottom of the Lyx window says successful preview ... but the Texworks program does not open. I even tried using the shortened path with no spaces with no luck. C:\Progra~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\miktex-texworks.exe Does anyone know how to set the Lyx pdf viewer to be different from the system default? Bob
RE: Thank you for View->Update
Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context-menu, select "Open with..." - One level deeper, choose "Choose default program..." - In my situation, the PDF-viewer TeXworks is visible, if you check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" then it will work, since TeXworks doesn't lock the PDF down. - If you don't see TeXworks, try to find it first by browsing to it, from then on it will be in the menu - If you want to go back to Acrobat, follow the same route. Good luck, Roel Schipper -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of Bob Alvarez Sent: maandag 9 september 2013 18:15 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Cc: sl...@troubleshooters.com Subject: Re: Thank you for View->Update Importance: Low > Thank you very much for View->Update (Ctrl+Shift+R). It's been in LyX > for many, many versions, but now it works, and it's a great help in > keeping the PDF I'm proofreading in sync with the file I'm modifying. On my Windows 7 system the pdf viewer does not allow updates to the file. Lyx gives me the error message: "I can't write on file ..." Does anyone know a way around this? Bob
Re: Thank you for View->Update
pdfview (as used here) is a custom application designed to use the system default reader while avoiding file lock problems. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/WindowsInstaller-pdfview for source. If it no longer works, maybe someone should have a look at updating it. Paul
Re: Thank you for View->Update
On 11/09/2013 4:44 a.m., Bob Alvarez wrote: On 9/10/13 1:09 AM, Roel Schipper - CITG wrote: Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context-menu, select "Open with..." - One level deeper, choose "Choose default program..." - In my situation, the PDF-viewer TeXworks is visible, if you check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" then it will work, since TeXworks doesn't lock the PDF down. - If you don't see TeXworks, try to find it first by browsing to it, from then on it will be in the menu - If you want to go back to Acrobat, follow the same route. Good luck, Roel Schipper Thanks, that does work but TexWorks is a limited program, for example it does not seem to show bookmarks in pdf documents, so as you mention I would have to switch back and forth. I tried to change the defaults for pdf viewer in Tools|Preferences|File Handling|File formats and then selecting PDF in the Format dropdown menu. The default in the Viewer: dropdown list is pdfview, which seems to choose the system default viewer. I tried selecting Custom and the entering the path to the texworks program but that does not work. The message box at the bottom of the Lyx window says "successful preview ..." but the Texworks program does not open. I even tried using the shortened path with no spaces with no luck. C:\Progra~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\miktex-texworks.exe Does anyone know how to set the Lyx pdf viewer to be different from the system default? Bob With LyX 2.0.6 and Windows Vista, I changed the Viewer slot to Custom and in the right slot put texworks, just the name with no path. Using the View button successfully brought up the Texworks pdf viewer. Andrew
Re: Thank you for View->Update
On 9/10/13 1:09 AM, Roel Schipper - CITG wrote: Normally I use Adobe Acrobat, but if I am working on a Lyx file that I want to update frequently during editing, I do the following: - Go to you desktop, right-click a random PDF file - From the context-menu, select "Open with..." - One level deeper, choose "Choose default program..." - In my situation, the PDF-viewer TeXworks is visible, if you check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" then it will work, since TeXworks doesn't lock the PDF down. - If you don't see TeXworks, try to find it first by browsing to it, from then on it will be in the menu - If you want to go back to Acrobat, follow the same route. Good luck, Roel Schipper Thanks, that does work but TexWorks is a limited program, for example it does not seem to show bookmarks in pdf documents, so as you mention I would have to switch back and forth. I tried to change the defaults for pdf viewer in Tools|Preferences|File Handling|File formats and then selecting PDF in the Format dropdown menu. The default in the Viewer: dropdown list is pdfview, which seems to choose the system default viewer. I tried selecting Custom and the entering the path to the texworks program but that does not work. The message box at the bottom of the Lyx window says "successful preview ..." but the Texworks program does not open. I even tried using the shortened path with no spaces with no luck. C:\Progra~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\miktex-texworks.exe Does anyone know how to set the Lyx pdf viewer to be different from the system default? Bob
Re: Thank you for View-Update
Thank you very much for View-Update (Ctrl+Shift+R). It's been in LyX for many, many versions, but now it works, and it's a great help in keeping the PDF I'm proofreading in sync with the file I'm modifying. On my Windows 7 system the pdf viewer does not allow updates to the file. Lyx gives me the error message: I can't write on file ... Does anyone know a way around this? Bob
Re: Thank you for View-Update
I suspect your PDF viewer is Acrobat Reader, which has the unfortunate (ill-conceived, misbegotten) habit of putting a write lock on a file while displaying it. Option 1 is to switch to a different PDF viewer. (There are several good few ones for Windows.) Option 2 is to change your viewer to a script (batch file) that closes Reader and then reopens it. Some years back there was such a script that I think was included with at least one Windows port of LyX (Uwe's bundle?). You might be able to find it archived on the wiki. Paul
Re: Thank you for View-Update
Thank you very much for View-Update (Ctrl+Shift+R). It's been in LyX for many, many versions, but now it works, and it's a great help in keeping the PDF I'm proofreading in sync with the file I'm modifying. On my Windows 7 system the pdf viewer does not allow updates to the file. Lyx gives me the error message: I can't write on file ... Does anyone know a way around this? Bob
Re: Thank you for View-Update
I suspect your PDF viewer is Acrobat Reader, which has the unfortunate (ill-conceived, misbegotten) habit of putting a write lock on a file while displaying it. Option 1 is to switch to a different PDF viewer. (There are several good few ones for Windows.) Option 2 is to change your viewer to a script (batch file) that closes Reader and then reopens it. Some years back there was such a script that I think was included with at least one Windows port of LyX (Uwe's bundle?). You might be able to find it archived on the wiki. Paul
Re: Thank you for View->Update
Thank you very much for View->Update (Ctrl+Shift+R). It's been in LyX for many, many versions, but now it works, and it's a great help in keeping the PDF I'm proofreading in sync with the file I'm modifying. On my Windows 7 system the pdf viewer does not allow updates to the file. Lyx gives me the error message: "I can't write on file ..." Does anyone know a way around this? Bob
Re: Thank you for View->Update
I suspect your PDF viewer is Acrobat Reader, which has the unfortunate (ill-conceived, misbegotten) habit of putting a write lock on a file while displaying it. Option 1 is to switch to a different PDF viewer. (There are several good few ones for Windows.) Option 2 is to change your "viewer" to a script (batch file) that closes Reader and then reopens it. Some years back there was such a script that I think was included with at least one Windows port of LyX (Uwe's bundle?). You might be able to find it archived on the wiki. Paul
Thank you for View-Update
Hi Developers, Thank you very much for View-Update (Ctrl+Shift+R). It's been in LyX for many, many versions, but now it works, and it's a great help in keeping the PDF I'm proofreading in sync with the file I'm modifying. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
Thank you for View-Update
Hi Developers, Thank you very much for View-Update (Ctrl+Shift+R). It's been in LyX for many, many versions, but now it works, and it's a great help in keeping the PDF I'm proofreading in sync with the file I'm modifying. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
Thank you for View->Update
Hi Developers, Thank you very much for View->Update (Ctrl+Shift+R). It's been in LyX for many, many versions, but now it works, and it's a great help in keeping the PDF I'm proofreading in sync with the file I'm modifying. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
