John Kane wrote:
Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader
called PDF-Viewer
http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows
only I believe)
I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to
Acrobat reader. However with both installed and
PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create
a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file.
At least, that is the only change to my system that I
can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default
reader makes everything work.
Should changing the default reader make such a
difference?
Does this mean that the *first* time yoiu try View -> PDF (whatever) you
get a silent failure, or only when you do an update to a doc you've
already viewed? (The rest of the thread seems to be headed in the
latter direction.) If it fails on the first try, go to Tools ->
Preferences... -> File formats -> PDF (pdflatex) [you'll need to repeat
this for each type of PDF export you use], and look in the viewer field.
If it says 'pdfview', try changing it to 'auto' (if you've installed
PDF-Viewer as the Windows default for PDF files) or else change it to
the name of the PDF-Viewer executable (and probably add the path to
PDF-Viewer to Tools -> Preferences... -> Paths -> PATH prefix to be safe).
PDFView is a work-around to circumvent the file lock that Acrobat Reader
slaps on your output file (which prevents updating the view). I'm not
positive, but I think it's hard-coded to use Acrobat, in the sense that
it looks for a window named "Acrobat" or "Acrobat Reader" to close/reopen.
HTH,
Paul
