> Am 31.10.2021 um 03:12 schrieb Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com>:
> I run SumatraPDF which is able to display a PDF without causing Lilypond to
> fail to write to the file at a later time. In fact, it is also able to
> detect such changes and redisplay its contents. None of this is special to
> Sumatra though, so there could be other PDF viewers that are similarly
> well-behaved.
I recently did a survey on PDF viewers in relation to TeX. Sumatra is
exceptionally well-behaved and thus a favorite of TeX developers on Windows.
I don’t run Windows myself (and my Linux is 64 bit only, so I can’t run Wine
either) and would welcome more hints about PDF viewers on Windows.
Most open source PDF viewers are in a sad state of supporting only basic
features or subsets of features like annotations and forms; most can’t even
display extended properties (LuaTeX sets a few), and don’t ask for XMP.
That doesn’t mean commercial PDF viewers/editors would be generally better.
Foxit Reader crashes nearly as often as Adobe Reader when I work with
annotations (on MacOS). I found only two commercial apps than can change
TrimBox/BleedBox in a visual way: Acrobat Pro and PDF Studio Pro, and the
latter reliably crashes on PDFs created with TeX.
Sorry, OT.
As a MIDI player I’m using FluidSynth/QSynth with one the recommended
soundfonts.
Hraban
