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From: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Stephen P. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info
"Mark" == Mark Engelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> I am using the full path name. When I set the preferences file
Mark> to: "F:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe"
Mark> then everything works for the duration of that LyX session.
Mark> But when I exit the program, and reenter the program, no viewer
Mark> is listed when I select "Edit->Preferences" and look under PDF.
Mark> However, the viewer IS listed in the actual preferences file.
Mark> For some reason, LyX is failing to load this preference from the
Mark> file.
The problem is that the name will be saved as something like
\viewer ""F:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe""
which means that the " quotes are not parsed correctly. We should
escape these values.
JMarc
Windows provided quotes to get around paths that had directories
with spaces in them for a long time, which is now broken in LyX.
One way to get around it is to install in directories without spaces
because the path doesn't need to be quoted.
C:\reader7\Reader\AcroRd32.exe
However the case of
""{c:}F:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe""
In my experience this will work if the directories with spaces are
internally "directory" quoted, both program files and acrobat 7.0.
It took me 25 tedious minutes to get the syntax correct so that
isn't a solution. I seem to remember there was still some problem.
Also I did it with c:\documents and settings\.....\application data\
