[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2. I tried setting my preferences so that the viewer for the PDF file
> types was (including the quotes):
>
> "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe"
>
> That worked fine. However, whenever I restart LyX, this path
> disappears from those fields. I found that in my preferences file, LyX
> wrote this out using double quotes, so I had:
>
> \viewer "pdf" ""C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe""
Yes, you've re-discovered a bug.
If you add
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader
to the path_prefix variable (see the Paths pane in the Edit->Preferences
dialog), you'll be able to define your viewer as
\viewer "pdf" "acrord32.exe"
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Angus