I am on DebianGNU/Linux using acroread. Anytime I make a change to some Context source and compile it into PDF I want to view the result i.e. reload the already opened PDF. Same as with Firefox/Iceweasel and some HTML page I work on i.e. hitting C-R reloads the page for viewing. With xpdf I just hit R and the file (which changed on the disk) gets reloaded. Am I right that acroread lacks a reload feature? Reopening a document anytime it changed totally sucks ...
see Taco's pdf instruction
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/xpdfopen/xpdfopen.pdf while
waitting for J. Kew's TeXWorks program:)
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Suno Ano
I am on DebianGNU/Linux using acroread. Anytime I make a change to some Context source and compile it into PDF I want to view the result i.e. reload the already opened PDF. Same as with Firefox/Iceweasel and some HTML page I work on i.e. hitting C-R reloads the page for viewing.
With xpdf I just hit R and the file (which changed on the disk) gets reloaded. Am I right that acroread lacks a reload feature? Reopening a document anytime it changed totally sucks ...
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| On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:31:06 +0800, | Yue Wang | who can be reached at: yuleopen@gmail.com | (whose comments are cited below with " Yue> "), | had this to say in article <68bfdc900804220731s325aed7cu473c27fcabc84601@mail.gmail.com> | in newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.context | concerning the subject of Re: acroread and reload a PDF | (see <871w4yhsxo.fsf@googlemail.com> for more details)
Yue> See Taco's pdf instruction Yue> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/xpdfopen/xpdfopen.pdf Yue> while waitting for J. Kew's TeXWorks program:) I see. Well, I figured I am going to use another (out-of-the-box) alternative which I am quite fond of already after just using it for an hour or so. Evaluating the following form (i.e. hitting C-x C-e with point behind it) (Info-goto-node "(auctex) Viewing") brings one right to the AucTeX GNU Info manual. In short: ,----[ C-h k C-c C-v ] | C-c C-v runs the command TeX-view, which is an interactive compiled | Lisp function in | `/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/auctex/tex-buf.elc'. | | It is bound to C-c C-v. | (TeX-view) | | Start a viewer without confirmation. | The viewer is started either on region or master file, | depending on the last command issued. | | [back] `---- This way xpdf starts and I can move around with shortcuts like e.g. R, Q, arrows etc. ... just what I wanted :-)
With xpdf I just hit R and the file (which changed on the disk) gets reloaded. Am I right that acroread lacks a reload feature? Reopening a document anytime it changed totally sucks ...
I recommend you to use "evince" viewer. I suppose, its output is even nicer than acroread's one. C-R reloads are supported. ZS
On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:57 PM, zs wrote:
I recommend you to use "evince" viewer. I suppose, its output is even nicer than acroread's one. C-R reloads are supported.
ZS
While I like and use evince on linux, I must also say that it's still not a very good viewer. Just to give you an example: \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor [a] [r=0,g=0,b=1] \definecolor [b] [r=0,g=0,b=0.05] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{shade} path p ; p := unitsquare scaled 8cm ; linear_shade(p,6,\MPcolor{a},\MPcolor{b}) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{shade} \stoptext Compile this and then have a look at the pdf file in acroread and in evince. Thomas
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:43:04 +0200
"Thomas A. Schmitz"
Compile this and then have a look at the pdf file in acroread and in evince.
Evince is not perfect and it will probably always be behind acroread. I know continuous gradients are not shown perfectly, but it's something that many people can live with. I suppose, evince is very good choice for development. ZS
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:57 PM, zs wrote:
I recommend you to use "evince" viewer. I suppose, its output is even nicer than acroread's one. C-R reloads are supported.
ZS
While I like and use evince on linux, I must also say that it's still not a very good viewer. Just to give you an example:
When talking about evince, it is important to check which rendering
libraries are used. I have documents that render correctly on my
debian box with at least one of the available evince packages
(linked to poppler 0.6.4), but not on Red Hat Fedora 8 (linked to
poppler-0.6.2), where some fonts are shown with "?".
While writing documents, I tend to use either apparition, which is fast
(as long as it is running on the local machine -- it can be very slow
over a network), or Emacs DocView just makes a png image of each
page -- often enough to make sure some TeX fragment is working
properly.
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