Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 17:50 schrieb Paul A. Rubin: > Bo Peng wrote: > >> Perhaps the Windows > >> installers could offer to install them (and recognize them as the > >> default viewer for PDF formats if installed)? > > > > Currently, lyx uses the default pdf viewer of windows by default. > > Users will have to set them manually after lyx is installed. > > > > True, but that's because the installer is designed to look for the > default viewer, right? So if the installer bundles bundles PDFView.cmd > etc., giving the user the option to install them or not, and the user > elects to install them, the installer should be able to react to that > and set the preference.
That looks perfect to me: acroread users on windows get a working pdf preview, and others are not effected by ugly side effects. Georg
