On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 05:05:42PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > >> On 05/23/2014 04:36 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >I see quite often Windows users experiencing problems with Adobe >> >Reader that are solved by using Sumatra PDF reader, an open source, >> >Windows only PDF reader. One problem that just recently came up is: >> >http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/179639/pdf-crashes-after-previewing-from-lyx >> > >> >Any thoughts? >> > >> >Also, is there a Windows user around that can test that Sumatra is >> >found correctly? >> >> I'd support this. If someone has Sumatra installed, they're likely >> to want to use it. > > Note that on Windows the default viewer configured in the OS is used > for a given format, so its position in the list does not really matter, > unless there is no association for the format.
I didn't know this. > However, mentioning > the viewer makes it available in the drop down list. Indeed, this seems like reason enough. > That said, SumatraPDF is far superior to Adobe Reader when used as > a viewer for documents produced by LaTeX, because a document gets > autoreloaded on change and forward/reverse search is supported. I didn't know this either. I thought it was just more simple and humble. In this case, and I'm not convinced myself that we should do this, but I would be interested in your thoughts: What about bundling SumatraPDF (only in the Bundle installer) and optionally installing it? The stand-alone is 2.7 MB so this would increase the bundle size from 200 MB to 203MB. Apparently we already bundle eLyXer and JabRef. This way, forward/reverse search would work out of the box and we would have fewer "why does LyX crash when I view a PDF?" questions. Enrico, can you confirm that SumatraPDF is the correct name of the binary to search for in configure? Scott
