Thanks Scott, I've installed SumatraPDF and, after changing the default viewer for PDFs in Windows, it opens fine on "view".
Task Manager shows that the filename is passed on the command line when using SumatraPDF. So, somehow, the behaviour of Lyx when "pdfview" is selected in the pdflatex file format, and Adobe Reader is the default viewer in Windows, has changed between 2.0.6 and 2.07, such that it no longer works in the latter. I now think I'll be sticking with SumatraPDF even if Lyx fixes its integration with Adobe Reader. Daniel On 12 February 2014 15:58, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Daniel Renshaw <pantech...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just upgraded to 2.0.7 from 2.0.6. When I press Ctrl-R (the shortcut > for > > View->View [PDF (pdflatex)]) my document no longer appears. Previously > the > > document would appear in Adobe Reader but now nothing. > > > > Possibly relevant details: Windows 8 x64; MiKTeX (fully up to date); > Adobe > > Reader XI (11.0.06). > > > > After pressing Ctrl-R I see that the usual pair of AcroRd32.exe processes > > start up (two is normal, one sees to communicate with the other and runs > > this way even when I open Reader manually). However, the Reader window > does > > not open. There is also no filename passed on the command line to Reader > > according to Windows 8 Task Manager. How is Lyx communicating with > Reader? > > If it's via the command line then why is no filename passed and why > doesn't > > the Reader window open, even if empty? Or maybe Lyx uses DDE, or some > other > > interprocess communication? > > > > I can still export using pdflatex -- the PDF is produced and opens in > Reader > > just fine. > > > > I also just updated MiKTeX but only the 3-4 most recently updated > packages > > were upgraded so I don't think MiKTeX is the cause. Besides I can export > > fine. Adobe Reader has not been updated recently. > > > > I tried following the instructions at [1] but this seemed to make the > > situation worse. The document still didn't appear but now the > AcroRd32.exe > > processes didn't start either! I've reverted those settings changes. > > > > Does anybody know if this is a regression in Lyx 2.0.7, and/or is there > > something I can do to get the view function working once again? > > I have a feeling I saw this somewhere else also (works on 2.0.6 but > not on 2.0.7) but I don't remember where. Have you tried with another > PDF reader such as Sumatra? I don't claim that's a solution to the > problem, but knowing whether it works in Sumatra might help. If not, > then perhaps as you suggest LyX is just not passing the file name. If > it does work, then something else is going on specific to Acrobat > Reader. > > Scott >
