bigblop wrote:
I use LyX 1.5.4 for winXP. I have installed adobe reader in:
C:\Programmer\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe
I need to specify the whole path to the above file if I want to use it as
the PDF previewer. But I get an error since there is a space in the
foldername Reader 8.0. If
Have done as you recommended, I can see that the command Executing command
acrord32.exe... is run but acroread does not open. If I press
Ctrl-alt-delete I can see the acrord32.exe process and need to manualy
terminate it if I want to run acroread from windows again.
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Ok, I reproduced this on my machine and sorted it out. The problem is
that LyX passes the path to the output file (sitting in your temporary
buffer directory) as C:/whatever/whatever.pdf. Acrobat Reader is
apparently too stupid to cope with the Unix style separators (/ rather
than \), unlike
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
The easy
solution is to put Acrobat Reader's directory on your system path and
leave the viewer setting as 'auto' in LyX.
Actually, I'm not even sure you need AR on the system path, as long as
it's in the registry as the default viewer for PDFs. The 'auto' setting
is
Ah of course I used SumatraPDF.exe before. Know I have just choosen pdfview
and I runs acroread. Thanks for the tip!
BTW: It finally seems that acroread (8.1.2) automatically refreshes a
changed PDF file! Before it just showed a corrupted file. Next update though
is to keep it at the current
bigblop wrote:
I use LyX 1.5.4 for winXP. I have installed adobe reader in:
C:\Programmer\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe
I need to specify the whole path to the above file if I want to use it as
the PDF previewer. But I get an error since there is a space in the
foldername Reader 8.0. If
Have done as you recommended, I can see that the command Executing command
acrord32.exe... is run but acroread does not open. If I press
Ctrl-alt-delete I can see the acrord32.exe process and need to manualy
terminate it if I want to run acroread from windows again.
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Ok, I reproduced this on my machine and sorted it out. The problem is
that LyX passes the path to the output file (sitting in your temporary
buffer directory) as C:/whatever/whatever.pdf. Acrobat Reader is
apparently too stupid to cope with the Unix style separators (/ rather
than \), unlike
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
The easy
solution is to put Acrobat Reader's directory on your system path and
leave the viewer setting as 'auto' in LyX.
Actually, I'm not even sure you need AR on the system path, as long as
it's in the registry as the default viewer for PDFs. The 'auto' setting
is
Ah of course I used SumatraPDF.exe before. Know I have just choosen pdfview
and I runs acroread. Thanks for the tip!
BTW: It finally seems that acroread (8.1.2) automatically refreshes a
changed PDF file! Before it just showed a corrupted file. Next update though
is to keep it at the current
bigblop wrote:
I use LyX 1.5.4 for winXP. I have installed adobe reader in:
C:\Programmer\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe
I need to specify the whole path to the above file if I want to use it as
the PDF previewer. But I get an error since there is a space in the
foldername "Reader 8.0".
Have done as you recommended, I can see that the command "Executing command
acrord32.exe..." is run but acroread does not open. If I press
Ctrl-alt-delete I can see the acrord32.exe process and need to manualy
terminate it if I want to run acroread from windows again.
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>
Ok, I reproduced this on my machine and sorted it out. The problem is
that LyX passes the path to the output file (sitting in your temporary
buffer directory) as "C:/whatever/whatever.pdf". Acrobat Reader is
apparently too stupid to cope with the Unix style separators (/ rather
than \),
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
The easy
solution is to put Acrobat Reader's directory on your system path and
leave the viewer setting as 'auto' in LyX.
Actually, I'm not even sure you need AR on the system path, as long as
it's in the registry as the default viewer for PDFs. The 'auto' setting
is
Ah of course I used SumatraPDF.exe before. Know I have just choosen pdfview
and I runs acroread. Thanks for the tip!
BTW: It finally seems that acroread (8.1.2) automatically refreshes a
changed PDF file! Before it just showed a corrupted file. Next update though
is to keep it at the current
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