For users of Mac OS X 10.4.x, PDFview is a great application for this
purpose.
It integrates nicely with LaTeX and LyX, and you can easily configure it
to automatically update the PDF output.
With LyX, this means that
-- you set PDFview with "open -a pdfview" as your viewer in LyX's
preferences
-- you click the checkbox in PDFview's preferences to automatically
reload files that are updated on your harddisk
-- and anytime now you choose View --> Update from your LyX document,
-- you simply switch to PDFview, and the changes are right there. No
reloading, no closing and opening, no pressing keys.
PDFview is available from SourceForge at
http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/index.html.
-- Christian
Helge Hafting wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:39:55AM -0500, Les Denham wrote:
On Friday 15 June 2007 08:36, Helge Hafting wrote:
Acrobat certainly isn't useless, but have some problems:
Precisely why I use Acrobat Reader: I don't want to create a PDF which does
not work properly with the reader most people use. I performed the necessary
convolutions to get it to work on my x86_64 Linux machine, and when using it
to view Lyx output I just close it each time.
Of course one checks a PDF "for general consumption" with acrobat,
no argument there!
This is not an argument for using acrobat as the main pdf viewer though.
Acrobat is something I use perhaps once before publication, to check that
the document views ok. (It usually does, it is a long time since
I figured out what fonts to use and what not to use.)
But for everyday use, I use xpdf. I can then tweak layout
efficiently. (Typically float placement - one of the few things
latex don't do perfectly all the time. And the breaking of URL's
and code listings.)
xpdf lets me do view->pdf, look up the float on page 37,
make small tweak, update->pdf, switch to xpdf and hit 'r'
and have the new pdf reloaded, still displaying page 37
so I don't have to _find_ it again.
I then repeat this process until that float is ok,
then I move on to the next trouble float and so on.
The tought of doing this work with
"perform tweak - close acrobat - view->pdf (wait for
acrobat to start) - move to page 37 - perform tweak - ..."
is depressing. Especially with the delays involved when
starting a 32-bit acrobat on a 64-bit machine.
Of course, not all documents contains lots of large floats,
acrobat might not be so awful then . . .
Helge Hafting
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