Am 20.08.2014 um 03:01 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
I'm CC'ing Uwe and Vincent to see if they have any opinions on bundling Sumatra.
Another user's problem was solved by using Sumatra. I have not heard
back from Vincent or Uwe. I think they are both really busy. Does
anyone else have an opinion on this?
At least I am indeed very busy.
However, the PDF viewer issue pops up from time to time and the result
of previous discussion was that everybody prefers his own PDF viever. In
the past I bundled Ghostscript which would also do the job but many
users opposed to that since the download size increased a lot.
Sumatra PDF is under the GPL but not free software because it uses some
unrar code. There is completely free alternative name MuPDF. However, we
can instead also use Firefox as viewer for PDF files. This can easily
be done by the Win installer for LyX. The problem is that users like to
use one program for one task. To view PDF files they set up their own
choice. In many cases this is the Adobe Reader. It would be hard to
explain average users why the PDFs created by lyX are opened ia PDF
viewer program they don't know. That would be a major drawback for new
users.
In my opinion the only real solution is to check the registry what
program is currently used to view PDF files. This program will be used
also by LyX. As I ca see this is what the LyX installer currently does.
In any case I would not bundle a PDF viewer.
regards Uwe
