On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:39:55AM -0500, Les Denham wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 08:36, Helge Hafting wrote: > > Acrobat certainly isn't useless, but have some problems: > > Precisely why I use Acrobat Reader: I don't want to create a PDF which does > not work properly with the reader most people use. I performed the necessary > convolutions to get it to work on my x86_64 Linux machine, and when using it > to view Lyx output I just close it each time. > Of course one checks a PDF "for general consumption" with acrobat, no argument there!
This is not an argument for using acrobat as the main pdf viewer though. Acrobat is something I use perhaps once before publication, to check that the document views ok. (It usually does, it is a long time since I figured out what fonts to use and what not to use.) But for everyday use, I use xpdf. I can then tweak layout efficiently. (Typically float placement - one of the few things latex don't do perfectly all the time. And the breaking of URL's and code listings.) xpdf lets me do view->pdf, look up the float on page 37, make small tweak, update->pdf, switch to xpdf and hit 'r' and have the new pdf reloaded, still displaying page 37 so I don't have to _find_ it again. I then repeat this process until that float is ok, then I move on to the next trouble float and so on. The tought of doing this work with "perform tweak - close acrobat - view->pdf (wait for acrobat to start) - move to page 37 - perform tweak - ..." is depressing. Especially with the delays involved when starting a 32-bit acrobat on a 64-bit machine. Of course, not all documents contains lots of large floats, acrobat might not be so awful then . . . Helge Hafting
