On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:39 AM, BH <bewih...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM, stefano franchi > <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am helping a friend setting up Lyx on her Mac, and I cannot find a >> way to set up either Acrobat Reader or Preview.app to automatically >> reload the pdf upon update. I am no longer familiar with the Mac >> environment, I am afraid. Two questions: >> >> 1. Do Acrobat Reader and Preview.app (latest versions for both) >> support auto-reload? >> >> 2. If so, is there any specific trick to be used either in their >> respective preference panels and/or in Lyx's preferences (in File >> Viewer, I mean)? > > Preview.app, version 5.0.x (which comes with OS X 10.6.x) is able to > reload pdfs and does that automatically. As I recall, earlier versions > did not do that. However, even when Preview.app 5.0 reloads a pdf, it > also resets the view to the first page, no matter what page you had it > on previously. > Thanks Bennett,
I'll check the Preview.app version. > I have no real experience with Adobe Reader. > > An excellent alternative to Preview.app is Skim.app. TeXShop.app also > works (but takes some fiddling in preferences to set it up for an > external editor). > Is this the app made by the same developers as BibDesk? That's an excellent app. Cheers, Stefano
