I find Okular (under ubuntu) to be a better pdf viewer-- it updates
itself each time you compile the Lyx file, is fast and just works great.
EK
On 07/21/2011 05:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Paul A. Rubin<ru...@msu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I just ran into a bug, but I'm not sure who the culprit is. The setup is LyX
2.0.0 and Acrobat Reader 9 (specifically 9.4.2-0natty1 on Mint 11 Katya (forked
from Ubuntu Natty). If I create a document of more than one page in LyX (I've
tested both article and beamer classes, both new and old documents) and preview
it using pdflatex, Acrobat Reader freezes on the first page (no scroll bars, no
reaction to any inputs) until I force-quit it.
I assume that this is on 2nd and subsequent compilations. When it is
on the first compilation, acroread doesn't freeze, right? If this is
the case, then it's a bug in acroread: it doesn't automatically reload
a PDF document when it has been resaved to disk. Try File> Reload (or
similar) to see if it solves the problem. Otherwise, consider using
Evince, and try acroread only before submitting.
Regards
Liviu
This happens whether using
xdg-open or telling LyX directly to use acroread. Previewing does not freeze
Evince. Once I force-quit Reader, I can open the PDF sitting in the temporary
directory in Reader and no freeze occurs, so the document itself is not
defective. (Acrobat Reader appears to be configured to allow only one instance
at a time, so I can't open the PDF in a second instance while the first is
frozen.)
I didn't see anything about this in Trac or on the list. FWIW, the system is
64-bit and the PC is quad core (AMD). Any clues what's going on?
Thanks,
Paul
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