[texhax] A pdfviewer for windows?

[William Adams]

On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Michael Barr wrote:

> I have read the threads on pdf viewers, but they seem to be all for  
> Unix/Linux or Mac.  Of course, the Adobe reader is available for  
> Windows, but it cannot update and in fact you have to exit before  
> rerunning pdf(la)tex or you get a "file in use" error.  The yap  
> viewer that comes with Miktex is broken.  If you try to reopen the  
> window before the update is finished it hangs up and you must exit  
> and restart, losing your place. And a file might take .5 seconds to  
> recompile and have yap require a minute or more to update and  
> sometimes it doesn't.  If you run tex again while it is updating it  
> will inevitably hang.


Sumatra PDF works well, or you could use TeXworks.

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

http://www.tug.org/texworks/

William

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