I don't export to tex and then to pdf, I said that just to clarify that .lyx is one type of a file extension, .tex is another one, and .pdf is yet another file..
By the way, what does the $$i option that you added to "open -a Skim.app" do? With the help of the other members my LyX is set to the first way you described. Thanks very much. ------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 at 11:19 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nos...@lisse.na> wrote: > > > Ehud, > > First of all why compile to tex and then to pdf, instead of doing this > directly? > > > There are however (at least) two ways of doing this: > > First look in the > > Document > > pulldown for > > View [PDF (LuaTeX)] > > can be also > > [PDF (pdflatex)] > > which is tied (in my case) to CMD-R > > > Then in > > Perferences -> File Handling -> File Formats -> Format: > > > look for > > [PDF (LuaTeX)] > > and set > > Viewer: [Custom] [open -a Skim.app $$i] > > click > > Apply > > and perhaps do same for > > [PDF (pdflatex)] > > > You can also select an PDF in the finder and then enter > > CMD-I > > which will open a window with lots of information and you usually would > find > > Open With: ... > > showing > > Preview. > > You can change that in the Pulldown to Skim for this (single) file or > for all files, so that double clicking on a PDF will open it with skim, > and the default method of opening PDFs in Skim would also change to > skim. > > I do the latter, as I use skim for almost every PDF. > > greetings, el > > > > On 2022-07-17 00:22 , Ehud Behar via lyx-users wrote: > > > I am using macOS and until now, after compiling the lyx file (to tex and > > > then) to a pdf file, the output was opened by the default pdf viewer > > > (macOS Preview, on my computer). > > > I want to use the pdf viewer "Skim" to open the compiled pdf, with > > > mainly the advantage that there are no page jumps after making changes > > > to the document. > > > What are the steps needed to change this in LyX in order to implement > > > skim as the pdf viewer? > > > The closest thing I came across until now is appendix C in the User > > > manual, section File Handling, and section 3 in the customization > > > manual, "The Preferences dialog". > > > It was a first reading and I haven't grasped everything, but at the > > > moment I am not sure if my answer is covered there at all. > > > Therefore my question is if those are the places to look at all, and if > > > someone can maybe redirect me to a short guide for that? > > > -- > lyx-users mailing list > lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
