Le 16 mai 2018 18:10:45 GMT+02:00, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org> a écrit : >On 05/16/2018 11:58 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 03:40:10PM +0000, Richard Kimberly Heck >wrote: >>> On 05/16/2018 11:13 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: >>>> Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >>>>> What is pdfview.exe and why do we use it on Windows? It does not >work at >>>> If I am not mijstaken this was workaround for Adobe Reader, which >does not >>>> reload when you update output pdf and this tool should enforce it. >>> Oh, right, I see, and the source for it is in our tree. >>> >>> Apparently, Windows didn't have a default PDF viewer set? >Whatever.... >> According to this message [1], the installer check the registry to >find >> out what program is the default for viewing PDF files. > >Yes, which is why that is so weird. You'd have thought there was a >default viewer. Indeed, Windows 10 apparently sets Edge as the default >(for damn near everything). > >Anyway, it worked once I set a viewer up. I also recompiled pdfview.exe >and will include my version in the installer. > >Riki
Earlier windows versions pretended that PDF did not exist... JMarc
