On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
As far as I know, It is not possible to reverse search from a pdf file. You need to use the dvi, which supports marks known as dvi specials. I don'tmaintain my patches anymore. Best regards, João.
There was a recent discussion on this issue. At least on Mac it is possible (I use this occasionally) using the PDFSYNC package. See
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc13