I used this minor mode: https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/ox-manuscript/ox-manuscript.el#L949
long enough to see that it kind of worked. It basically launched an async export every time you saved an org file. If you have a pdf viewer that will refresh when it changes on disk, it is pretty close to real time syncing if your pdf doesn't take long to build. There is no jumping back and forth though. Thomas S. Dye writes: > Nick Dokos writes: > >> Amos Bird <amosb...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is there a way to support pdf syncing when exporting and opening pdf in org >>> mode? >>> >> >> Meaning that if you make a change to the org file, you see the change >> immediately >> in the displayed PDF? I don't think there is a built-in way to do that. > > Or, if syncing means what SyncTeX does for TeX source code, so that it > is possible to jump back and forth to the same place in the TeX and pdf > documents, the answer is the same as Nick's, that there is no built in > way to do that in Org mode. > > All the best, > Tom -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu