On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/3/25 10:55 AM, Alexander Dunlap wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > When I am using LyX I am often wanting to compile the file frequently > > to see the previewed PDF. Sometimes, if my file is complicated, it > > takes several runs of LaTeX to compile, and the intermediate generated > > PDFs may not very readable (e.g. if there is complicated TikZ graphics > > happening). But I sometimes want to continue to study the old version > > of the preview while the new version is being generated, and this is > > difficult because the version being viewed is flickering through all > > of the intermediate versions. I am wondering if anyone knows a > > workflow for LyX that causes it to not replace the generated PDF until > > compilation is complete, so there is only a single refresh of the PDF > > viewer? > > The problem is that the PDF itself is being replaced all these times. > The viewer is reloading it when that happens. So it's possible you could > set up the viewer itself not to reload automatically. > > If you really want to save the intermediate version, you could create a > new format in LyX, and a converter specification, that would copy the > old version somewhere, and then open a viewer on it, then do the actual > compilation. > > Riki > >
Thanks! I think what I really want is for LyX to not overwrite the final file when it creates the intermediate versions, and only when it is done with all of the necessary LaTeX runs copy the compiled file to the "final" PDF location. I will look into creating a converter specification that could achieve this. Alex
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