--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
> > Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader
> > called PDF-Viewer
> > http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download
> (Windows
> > only I believe)
> >
> > I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior
> to
> > Acrobat reader. However with both installed and
> > PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not
> create
> > a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file.
> >
> > At least, that is the only change to my system
> that I
> > can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default
> > reader makes everything work.
> >
> > Should changing the default reader make such a
> > difference?
> >
>
> Does this mean that the *first* time yoiu try View
> -> PDF (whatever) you
> get a silent failure, or only when you do an update
> to a doc you've already viewed?
First time.
Your instructions to change PDFview.cmd to "auto"
works perfectly with no need to change Paths.
Thank you .
(The rest of the thread seems to be
> headed in the
> latter direction.) If it fails on the first try, go
> to Tools ->
> Preferences... -> File formats -> PDF (pdflatex)
> [you'll need to repeat
> this for each type of PDF export you use], and look
> in the viewer field.
> If it says 'pdfview', try changing it to 'auto'
> (if you've installed
> PDF-Viewer as the Windows default for PDF files) or
> else change it to
> the name of the PDF-Viewer executable (and probably
> add the path to
> PDF-Viewer to Tools -> Preferences... -> Paths ->
> PATH prefix to be safe).
>
> PDFView is a work-around to circumvent the file lock
> that Acrobat Reader
> slaps on your output file (which prevents updating
> the view). I'm not
> positive, but I think it's hard-coded to use
> Acrobat, in the sense that
> it looks for a window named "Acrobat" or "Acrobat
> Reader" to close/reopen.
>
> HTH,
> Paul
>
>
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