[XeTeX] no pdf?

[John Was]

Dear William

Thanks for that - I had indeed considered looking at different PDF viewers 
to see if I could achieve the same effect, and I realize it's not exactly a 
XeTeX issue since the processing is completed correctly - but I thought I 
would mention it in case it turned out to be relatively simple for a check 
to be made (and acted on) as to whether the PDF it was intending to write 
already existed and was open at the time.

Best wishes


John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Adams" <will.adams at frycomm.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:42 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] no pdf?


> On Sep 7, 2007, at 9:26 AM, John Was wrote:
>
>> The Mac seems to have won out yet again (I really must take the
>> plunge!).
>>
>> I run it from the command line, but haven't yet made the adjustment
>> recommended ages ago by Jonathan which would generate the PDF in
>> the same
>> directory as the source file (at present it pops up in the same
>> directory as
>> the XeTeX program itself).  That's just a matter of my own
>> housekeeping,
>> though, and it couldn't (I think) make any difference to the
>> situation.
>>
>> Does the Mac keep you on the page you are viewing already,
>> incidentally?
>> That's what I'm used to in DVIWindo, but with XeTeX I obviously get
>> the
>> first page of the PDF on screen when I call up the newly generated
>> version.
>
> Yes, most Mac OS X TeX editors make use of Mac OS X's .pdf
> capabilities to integrate viewing the typeset result --- there's even
> an option to synchronize between the windows.
>
> You may be able to set your pdf viewing program on Windows to
> remember where you last were in a .pdf --- some versions of Acrobat
> support this.
>
> You may find Sumatra PDF of interest:
>
> http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
>
> It's the viewer which I use in conjunction w/ Dirk Struve's TeXShell
> for Windows:
>
> http://www.projectory.de/texshell/index.html
>
> I posted a button setup for it to usenet:comp.text.tex a while back.
>
> There're also scripts which will help out on this front --- LyX comes
> w/ some if memory serves, or maybe one of the other Windows editors
> has better support though --- list of them here:
>
> http://www.itsfd.de/texwin/index.php?site=vcat&cat=33&lang=en
>
> William
>
>
> -- 
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
>
>
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