On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:03:56PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote: >> >> > 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. > > I don't think it is so simple and humble. It has all you need for > previewing a document and, if you need doing something fancy that > it does not support, there is a menu option for opening the pdf > in Adobe Reader.
Great. >> 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? > > There is nothing to install. The stand-alone version is simply an > executable that you can drop everywhere in your PATH and you are done. > I think that in this case it doesn't even write in the registry and > the preferences are stored in a text file placed alongside the exe. Indeed I checked and it does not write to registry. >> 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. > > It would suffice placing the executable in a directory under the LyX > directory tree that is already in the PATH prefix. If LyX is installed > in the Windows programs folder, every time a user changes preferences, > due to a sort of virtualization, the preferences file gets written > somewhere else but it would always appear at that same location. > In this way, different users can see different preferences by reading > the (seemingly) same file. It seems that they have write permissions > to the program folder, but it is really not so. > An initial preferences file containing the InverseSearchCmdLine could > be provided and a corresponding batch file placed alongside the exe. > For example, given the following setting in the SumatraPDF prefs: > InverseSearchCmdLine = lyxeditorwin %f %l > the batch file would be the following one: > $ cat lyxeditorwin.bat > @echo off > setlocal > set file=%1 > set row=%2 > echo LYXCMD:revdvi:server-goto-file-row:%file% %row%> \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.in > type \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.out > nul > > and it would require setting the correct lyxpipe in lyxrc.dist: > \serverpipe "\\.\pipe\lyxpipe" Excellent, thank you for the details. >> Enrico, can you confirm that SumatraPDF is the correct name of the >> binary to search for in configure? > > Yes, it is. OK then I committed the patch at e716f1ef in the meantime. I'm CC'ing Uwe and Vincent to see if they have any opinions on bundling Sumatra. Scott
