I was able to solve the problem by replacing my path with the
non-space equivalents so I wouldn't need to put the extra quotes
around it, which is definitely what was throwing things off.
So now my preferences says:
\viewer "pdf2" "F:\Progra~1\Adobe\Acroba~2.0\Reader\acrord32.exe"
All files and directories with spaces in Windows also have some
non-space 8.3 alias. So that's all I had to do.
Thanks for the help everyone,
Mark
On 9/9/05, Stephen P. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Stephen P. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
> 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\
>
>
>
