[XeTeX] Preview.app reloading on Snow Leopard

Arcadio Rubio García arcadiorubiogarcia at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 10:26:41 CEST 2009


What editor do you use? What command does it send to Preview.app?

I simply call open <pdf-filename> from the Terminal. Maybe there's the
source of the issue.

Thanks!

2009/10/20 Rembrandt Wolpert <wolpert at uark.edu>:
> Mmh, I just tried to reproduce your:
>
>> As you may have noticed, Preview does not reload correctly PDFs. When
>> they are already open, it updates them, but also moves to the first
>> page, which is really really annoying.
>
> Having Preview on a different "space" and moving after a change from my
> editor on space 1 to Preview on space 2 hadn't moved the view to the first
> page, and showed the change on the correct page (in my experiment, it stayed
> on p. 3 and showed the change I had made on p. 3). Maybe that works for you
> too?
>
> as ever,
> Rembrandt (still thinking that Skim is the better choice, though :-))
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Arcadio Rubio García
> <arcadiorubiogarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the tip. I've already knew Skim. It's a great app. But I
>> was hoping not to add yet another item to my cluttered Applications
>> folder.
>>
>> 2009/10/19 Rembrandt Wolpert <wolpert at uark.edu>:
>> > Skim? You find it at http://skim-app.sourceforge.net (and it's obviously
>> > free...)
>> >
>> > Rembrandt
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Arcadio Rubio García
>> > <arcadiorubiogarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I've recently upgraded to Snow Leopard from Leopard. I use Preview.app
>> >> to see my document while I'm editing it with XeTeX.
>> >>
>> >> First I compile it with xelatex and then I simply open the resulting
>> >> PDF with the open command, which used to open or update the PDF.
>> >>
>> >> As you may have noticed, Preview does not reload correctly PDFs. When
>> >> they are already open, it updates them, but also moves to the first
>> >> page, which is really really annoying.
>> >>
>> >> I've been looking for a fix, but haven't found any. I don't want to
>> >> install an additional PDF viewer if I can avoid it. Any ideas?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance.
>> >>
>> >> A.R.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > 人有不為也而後可有為
>> >
>> >
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