Russell Davie wrote: > Hi, > > How is it possible to have a automatic update of pdf file so the pdf can > viewed as the lyx file is been created? > > Are there command line options that can be set that would enable this? > > My plan is, if possible, to have a cron job calling a script to generate > pdf from lyx which is then displayed on a viewer: kpdf which can watch for > changes in pdf.
lyx -e pdf2 xxx.lyx See also `lyx --help' and `man lyx'. This does also work with all other exportable formats. pdf2 is the name of the "PDF (pdflatex)" format. See the preferences for the names of other formats. Georg
