Hi. I have a problem with LyX 1.4.2. under Windows. When using any of the "update PDF" options in the View menu PDF viewers cannot update the generated PDF, and some give an error. I found a "fix" in the LyX wiki at
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips that suggests creating a PDFview.cmd script with the following code if not exist "%~dpn1~%~x1" goto :go pdfclose --file "%~dpn1~%~x1" del "%~dpn1~%~x1" :go copy %1 "%~dpn1~%~x1" pdfopen --file "%~dpn1~%~x1" exit and putting this script as well as pdftools (pdfopen and pdfclose) somewhere in the path, and then changing the associated viewer for PDF from auto to PDFview. I've done all of these things, but it doesn't workl. I tried with different PDF viewers (Acrobat, Foxit, eXpertPDF,) and none of these work: LyX fails to even launch the viewers, and there is not message given. Even starting LyX from a console window doesn't show any messages, even after adding an "echo something" at the beginning of the PDFview.cmd, which suggests that LyX is not running PDFview.cmd, but I am sure it is in the path. I even tried putting it in the lyx/bin and in my ~/.lyx directory but to no avail. Does anyone know whether this is a bug or if not, what to do to make the update PDF options work under Windows? -- Ernesto Posse Modelling, Simulation and Design Lab - School of Computer Science McGill University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada url: http://moncs.cs.mcgill.ca/people/eposse
