Thank you for the tex exchange link here below. I had been trying to use Skim as well as the mac Previewer app but unsuccessfully as far as the automatic reloading was concerned ( a more apt search term that I was thus far missing). Turns out I was missing this bit in Skim which one would have supposed to have been enabled by default.
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/manual/SkimHelp_39.html that is an option to "Automatically update files for external updates." Cheerio Basma On 6 Aug 2014, at 18:52, Shay Riggs wrote: > Hi Basma, > > In my experience, Adobe Reader is almost always the PDF viewer of last resort > when using LyX – on Mac, Windows or Linux. > > According to this page: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/43057/macosx-pdf-viewer-automatic-reload-on-file-modification > > you should be able to just use the default OS X Preview program, but there > are other suggestions in the answers that you could try (e.g. Skim, TeXShop). > > > Cheers > > Shay > > > On 6 August 2014 18:33, Basma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello LyX people, > > I am new user to LyX (2.1.1) on Mavericks, facing a rather basic problem. > I compile using ps2pdf or pdflatex with the PDF opening in the chosen viewer. > If it remains open, any changes are not reflected using the update function. > The generated PDF always needs closing, then viewing again. > The OS default PDF viewer is Adobe which may have been the issue. > I changed it to Skim & Previewer for ps2pdf & pdflatex. > Still no updating. > The non-updating bit applies to other formats as well (tried DVI, EPS). > Successful Preview of format:PDF (ps2pdf) is displayed when viewing. > Successful export to format: PDF (ps2pdf) is displayed for updating. > > A log file is available if needs be. > > > Thanks in advance. > > Basma > > >
