Hello LyXTesters,
I published a new version with LyX1.5.0svn from 07-01-2007:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=11997
Installer Changelog:
- LyX 1.5svn from 07-01-2007:
- the tex2lyx.exe and lyx.exe and LyX's dialogs now have an icon
- LyX is now also translated into Galician
- you can now copy and paste stuff from other programs to LyX with "Strg-v"
like for all other Windows programs
- lots of bugfixes: e.g. TOC dialog, spellchecker, change tracking
- updated Readme files for the installer sourcecode:
- mention the required NSIS-package "InetLoad"
- require NSIS 2.22 to create the installer
- updated installer source code documentation
- fix bug that small installer version took care about JabRef while uninstalling
- fix that complete installer version does no longer propose to install programs
that are already installed
- fix crash when viewing PDF when Adobe Reader 8 is used
Thanks to Ramon Flores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
- updated Spanish and Portuguese translation and new Galician translation of
the installer
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Important note concerning the PDF-viewing problem:
The problematic is the following:
A PDF-file should be modified while it is opened with Acrobat/Adobe Reader.
This is not possible because Acrobat/Adobe Reader understands itself as editor,
not as reader and therefore opens PDFs always with write access, so that other
programs cannot modifiy them.
The idea to solve the problem is the following:
The file that should be shown in Acrobat is copied and then renamed. The
renamed copy is opened by Acrobat while the unrenamed version can be modified
by LyX. When a modified version should be displayed, the eventually opened
renamed version is closed in Acrobat and the modified version is copied, renamed
and reopened in Acrobat.
Since the first version of the LyXWinInstaller the programs "pdfopen" and
"pdfclose", written by Fabrice Popineau are used to open/close files in Acrobat.
pdfopen create a special program handle in which Acrobat is started. This has
the advantage that it is possible to close PDFs with pdfclose within Acrobat.
Therefore it is possible to jump back to the position in the reopened, modified
PDF that you viewed the last time. This is a very usefule feature when editing
long documents.
Unfortumately pdfopen's program handle crashes Adobe Reader 8 when you want to
close a document, so the method described above can't be used to view PDFs from
LyX. I therefore renamed the the program PDFViewWin to PDFViewWin7 as this can
be used for Acrobat 5-7 and wrote a new version PDFViewWin8 which is for
for Adobe Reader 8. In PDFViewWin8 the PDFs are closed by closing its program
window.
Unfortunately the feature of jumping back to the last viewed position in a PDF
is not possible with Adobe Reader 8, independent from the way PDFs are
opened/closed. This feature is only available when the PDF isn't modified
between
closing and reopening.
PDFViewWin8 doesn't work for Acrobat 7 (it only works if no PDF is opened in
Acrobat when viewing the PDF from within LyX).
Conclusion: Use PDFViewWin7 for Acrobat/Adobe Reader 7 and PDFViewWin8 for Adobe
Reader 8. The installer should set this correctly while installing LyX, if not
mail me. Use Adobe Reader 7 when editing large documents.
Help needed: PDFViewWin8 has not been tested with Acrobat 8 Professional and
Standard. If someone has thes programs please mail me. (I need to now the
Window
name when a PDF is opened. Acrobat 7 opens files in windows named e.g.
"test.pdf - Adobe Arcobat Professional". How is this with Acrobat 8?.)
Every comment and idea is welcome.
thanks and regards
Uwe
--- disclaimer ---
LyXsvn builds are for testers and interested LyXers to see the new
features.
If you find crash bugs, please report them to the LyX devel mailing list.
If you find other bugs, have a look at this file first before you inform
the developers:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/Status.15x
Note! LyX1.5svn is still in alpha state, that means it is under very
active development. Therefore things can change every day, so
don't use LyX1.5svn for production!
