I am working on a Mac.  My viewer is Adobe Reader, but I have also tried Skim.  
I got Reverse and Forward search working with Skim, but still saving the 
changed LyX file, and hitting the PDF button does not produce a new PDF view.

Hal

On Apr 23, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Hal Kierstead <[email protected]> wrote:
>> While working on a LyX document it would be nice to be able to quickly see 
>> the the pdf view, just as one can when working on a tex document.  The 
>> problem I have is that to view changes I must close the current view
>> 
> Are you using acroread? It features a known issue: it doesn't reload
> the PDF on file system change. You could either reload it in acroread,
> or use something else such as Evince.
> 
> 
>> reopen it and then navigate to the the current position,
>> 
> There is a new feature 'forward search' (or similar) that should help
> in such cases, but I'm not familiar with it.
> 
> Regards
> Liviu
> 
> 
>> and maybe even reposition the window.  Is there a more automated way to do 
>> this?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Hal
> 
> 
> 
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