[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2. I tried setting my preferences so that the viewer for the PDF file > types was (including the quotes): > > "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe" > > That worked fine. However, whenever I restart LyX, this path > disappears from those fields. I found that in my preferences file, LyX > wrote this out using double quotes, so I had: > > \viewer "pdf" ""C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\acrord32.exe""
Yes, you've re-discovered a bug. If you add C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader to the path_prefix variable (see the Paths pane in the Edit->Preferences dialog), you'll be able to define your viewer as \viewer "pdf" "acrord32.exe" -- Angus