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Nathaniel Beck | 1 Aug 2007 13:19
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Re: preview with acrobat reader

As another auctex user who was experiencing file 
opening problems with acrobat, thanks Joost. So 
far sumatra has worked just fine (and opens lots 
quicker than acrobat). So I recommend that auctex 
folks having trouble with acrobat try SumatraPDF.

Neal

Joost Kremers wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:58:53PM +0000, Ian Fiske wrote:
> 
> while i don't have experience with pdf-previewing on windows (i use linux),
> i would certainly recommend looking for an alternative. google gives quite
> a few options.

> sumatra pdf viewer is open source, and has a reread function. that
> would be the first thing i'd try...
> 
>
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Ian Fiske | 1 Aug 2007 14:22
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Re: preview with acrobat reader

> > mmm. sumatra pdf viewer is open source, and has a reread function. that
> > would be the first thing i'd try...
> 
> With GSView (which requires Ghostscript) you don't even need that. It
> will display automatically the latest version of the document.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jose Carlos Santos
> 

Thanks for the replies!  Sumatra works great.  And maybe I'll try GSView too.

cheers,
Ian
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Nathaniel Beck | 1 Aug 2007 23:14
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Re: preview with acrobat reader

Also note that one wants to hit r in Sumatra to 
reload the viewer with the latest pdf. Sumatra 
does not seem to behave well with beamer overlays, 
so I just turn off the overlays until I am ready 
to make a final version. At that point I return to 
Acrobat.

Neal

Nathaniel Beck wrote:
> As another auctex user who was experiencing file opening problems with 
> acrobat, thanks Joost. So far sumatra has worked just fine (and opens 
> lots quicker than acrobat). So I recommend that auctex folks having 
> trouble with acrobat try SumatraPDF.
> 
> Neal
> 
> 
> Joost Kremers wrote:
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David Scott | 3 Aug 2007 15:04
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Re: Installing without root permission

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

> David Scott <d.scott <at> auckland.ac.nz> writes:
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>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>>> David Scott <d.scott <at> auckland.ac.nz> writes:
>>>
>>>> I would like to install AUCTeX myself on a Unix machine where I don't
>>>> have root permission. I downloaded that latest version of AUCTeX, ran
>>>> .configure and make but make install failed. I couldn't see how to
>>>> have it install in a directory where I have write permission.
>>>>

some stuff skipped here which shows I don't know what I am doing and 
haven't properly read the documentation

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> It might be possible to walk you all the way through a manual
> installation, pointing out the instructions piece by piece that you
> missed on the first go.  But I think it would be a waste of both your
> and our time.
>
> Please just download the precompiled XEmacs package from AUCTeX's
> download page and use either the package manager to install it, or
> just unpack it into your personal package directory.
>

This was very good advice. I did this and it all seems fine. Menus, 
buttons and syntax highlighting all are working as they should. Looks very
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Roger Levy | 6 Aug 2007 08:51
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Re: preview with acrobat reader

This is a useful bit of information!  Does anyone have suggestions for a 
similar-functionality PDF viewer under Mac OS X? (Preview has a reload 
command, "revert", but it sends you back to page 1 of the document, 
which is suboptimal.)

Roger

Nathaniel Beck wrote:
> As another auctex user who was experiencing file opening problems with 
> acrobat, thanks Joost. So far sumatra has worked just fine (and opens 
> lots quicker than acrobat). So I recommend that auctex folks having 
> trouble with acrobat try SumatraPDF.
> 
> Neal
> 
> 
> Joost Kremers wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:58:53PM +0000, Ian Fiske wrote:
>>
>> while i don't have experience with pdf-previewing on windows (i use 
>> linux),
>> i would certainly recommend looking for an alternative. google gives 
>> quite
>> a few options.
> 
>> sumatra pdf viewer is open source, and has a reread function. that
>> would be the first thing i'd try...
>>
>>
>
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Stefan Vollmar | 6 Aug 2007 18:58
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Re: preview with acrobat reader

Dear Roger,

Am 06.08.2007 um 08:51 schrieb Roger Levy:

> This is a useful bit of information!  Does anyone have suggestions  
> for a similar-functionality PDF viewer under Mac OS X? (Preview has  
> a reload command, "revert", but it sends you back to page 1 of the  
> document, which is suboptimal.)

I can recommend
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
which works fine for me - it reload the pdf automatically while  
keeping the current position (which works surprisingly well most of  
the time). I believe it is the successor to the discontinued
http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/
which is mentioned in the Aquamacs Online Help.

Warm regards,
  Stefan
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Roger Levy | 7 Aug 2007 06:42
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Re: preview with acrobat reader

Stefan Vollmar wrote:
> Dear Roger,
> 
> Am 06.08.2007 um 08:51 schrieb Roger Levy:
> 
>> This is a useful bit of information!  Does anyone have suggestions for 
>> a similar-functionality PDF viewer under Mac OS X? (Preview has a 
>> reload command, "revert", but it sends you back to page 1 of the 
>> document, which is suboptimal.)
> 
> I can recommend
> http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
> which works fine for me - it reload the pdf automatically while keeping 
> the current position (which works surprisingly well most of the time). I 
> believe it is the successor to the discontinued
> http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/
> which is mentioned in the Aquamacs Online Help.

Many thanks, Stefan -- this seems very nice but when I change the PDF 
document (e.g., with Latex) while viewing, File -> Revert is still not 
enabled.  Am I maybe doing something wrong?

Best

Roger

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Alan Ristow | 7 Aug 2007 16:35
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Joost Kremers wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:58:53PM +0000, Ian Fiske wrote:
>> Any ideas would be much appreciated.  Or is there a previewer that might work
>> better in windows for PDFs?  
> 
> while i don't have experience with pdf-previewing on windows (i use linux),
> i would certainly recommend looking for an alternative. google gives quite
> a few options.
> 
> one problem with acrobat reader, IMHO a fatal flaw, is that it doesn't seem
> to offer any way of rereading a pdf file.

I haven't read this group in a little while and missed the start of this 
thread, but I've found that pdfopen and pdfclose (part of pdftools, 
available on CTAN) can be used to open and close PDFs with Acrobat and 
return to the last opened page upon re-opening. See:

http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/2005/07/15/pdfopen-and-pdfclose/

The pdftools binaries are distributed with MiKTeX (though I don't recall 
whether they're there by default or I had to install them via the 
package manager). I can't say whether they're present in other 
distributions.

I've only tried them manually from the command line, but that works fine 
for me with Reader 8 (though pdfclose will only work on files opened 
with pdfopen unless you close all files). I made one feeble attempt to 
get AUCTeX to call pdfclose prior to running pdflatex and use pdfopen to 
open the file, with no luck.
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Christian Schlauer | 7 Aug 2007 23:44
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Re: preview with acrobat reader

Alan Ristow <ristow <at> ee.gatech.edu> writes:

> Joost Kremers wrote:

[...]

>> one problem with acrobat reader, IMHO a fatal flaw, is that it doesn't seem
>> to offer any way of rereading a pdf file.
>
> I haven't read this group in a little while and missed the start of
> this thread, but I've found that pdfopen and pdfclose (part of
> pdftools, available on CTAN) can be used to open and close PDFs with
> Acrobat and return to the last opened page upon re-opening. See:
>
> http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/2005/07/15/pdfopen-and-pdfclose/
>
> The pdftools binaries are distributed with MiKTeX (though I don't
> recall whether they're there by default or I had to install them via
> the package manager). I can't say whether they're present in other
> distributions.

They are present in MiKTeX by default -- they are also present on
Ubuntu GNU/Linux with TeXLive 2005:

$ dpkg --search pdfopen
texlive-pdfetex: /usr/bin/pdfopen
texlive-pdfetex: /usr/share/man/man1/pdfopen.1.gz

,----[ man pdfopen ]
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mirko.vukovic | 8 Aug 2007 00:04

Includegraphics completion in beamer files

Hello,

How can I inform auctex to enable \includegrahpics (including file-name completion) in beamer documents?

Thanks,

Mirko
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