----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: 1.3.6pre and 1.4 windows
It seems to me that questions about viewing PDFs come up periodically,
but usually from people who don't know they need to go to the file
formats section and fill in the viewer entries. I don't recall the
business of the space in the path coming up much, but then my memory's
not trustworthy. In any case, it's liable to come up more often when
versions 1.3.6 and then 1.4 hatch, because they will allow users to work
directly from source documents under My Documents, which I suspect will
desensitize Windows users to the general issue of spaces in the path.
I've added a blurb near the bottom of
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup
describing this. Feel free to edit it if you find it less than clear
(or, worse, inaccurate).
-- Paul
This works a bit curiously in 1.3.6pre.
Pdf = acrobat will bring up the doc at half-page size.
Pdflatex will also bring up the document in half-page size.
If the full path to acrobat.exe is entered in quotes,
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\acrobat.exe"
The save will not take effect and next time one opens Lyx
the viewer field is blank. But then pdflatex defualts to acrobat
as long as acrobat was in the pdf field.
There is the pdfview.cmd bat file:
START /max Acrobat.exe %1
exit
This works to open the pdf file full-page size.
In the pdf (dvipdfm) field both pdfview.cmd
and c:\LyX\bin\pdfview.com are equivalent
and bring up the pdf doc in full-page size.
At the same time pdflatex using acrobat
will bring up the same doc in half-page size.
And finally, if "c:\lyx\bin\pdfview.cmd" is put
in quotes, modified, applied, saved, closed and
re-opened the field is blank and reverts to acrobat
in half-page size. I don't think pdfview.cmd can
be located in a Path which contains a space.
Regards,
Stephen
