Bo Peng wrote:
This trick works with windows as well as linux, and of course such
scripts
could be distributed with lyx.
Are you sure about this part? This is not as simple as a script, we
need pdfopen.exe, pdfclose.exe to track the process id of acrobat
reader and re-open it if necessary. I seriously doubt that this is
portable.
When I said 'script', I did not mean the limited .bat/.cmd files,
I believe LyX requires python these days.
Python has spawnl(), which will start a new process and
return its process id.
Several people have mentioned that there is no acrobat reader for
x86-64 systems. This is not the case. The acrobat reader rpm works
just fine. Maybe it is not in 64 bit, but it runs well.
Yes - if you bother installing 32-bit compatibility libraries - sure.
Amd64 is "nice" in that it support running 32-bit software as well.
This is mostly unnecessary for linux users, who have all their
open software recompiled for 64-bit anyway. They made this
"feature" for the benefit of closed-source software which seems
doomed to trail behind for many years. Opterons (and their
64-bit linux port) have been around for years, and almost none of the
closed-source linux software is ported, even though it often
is as simple as a recompile. It says something about how
old and unmaintained such software is . . .
X86-64 is the only processor which do this trick though. Alpha,
powerpc and others really have no acrobat at all. Not that it
matters much, there being other reasons for using other viewers.
Helge Hafting
