John Kane wrote:
Tools -> Preferences ... -> File formats lists all the file formats LyX
recognizes. For each, you can specify a program to display it in the
Viewer: field. (If the program is not on your system command path, you
can either specify a full path here or add the path to it to Tools ->
Preferences ... -> Paths -> PATH prefix.) After adding a viewer, click
Modify and then Save.
Aha, I see the adobe path in PATH. The viewer command
is simply PDFview.cmd . If I change the path will that
give me a new PDF reader?
PDFview is used specifically in conjunction with Acrobat Reader (and
only on Windows systems) to work around the following problem: if you
View->PDF, modify the document, and then View->PDF again without first
closing the previous Reader document, the second View->PDF will fail
because pdflatex will try to overwrite the output PDF file while Acrobat
has a lock on it. (PDFView just automatically closes the previous copy
first to avoid this.)
If you want a different reader (for instance, FoxIt), you need to change
PDFView.cmd to FoxIt's binary and either supply the path to the FoxIt
binary there or put it in the PATH prefix.
Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I still
get strange noises from it but the mechanic usually
can find an expensive cure.
A car is a replacement for a team of horses, the main purposes being to
(a) find a way to consume more expensive fuel and (b) trade methane
exhaust for carbon exhaust. (A side benefit is that cars tend to leak
fluids rather than solids.)
I take it you have not known a lot of horses?
Not on a first-name basis (other than the one that threw me when I was a
kid). Mostly I stay in front of them when they're stationary and to
their side (by a safe margin) when they're in motion.
They leak solids and fluids (and methane too come to think
of it. On the other hand petting horse is much more
rewarding than petting a car (or even my roadbike )
True, provided the horse likes you; if the horse doesn't like you,
petting the car is likely to be quite a bit safer (unless you pet the
fan belt while it's running, I suppose).
/Paul
