{viewers} are GUI tools to render or visualise the .dvi, .ps and .pdf files generated after a LaTeX or pdfLaTeX compilation. Its synonymous tag is {pdf-reader} for PDF viewers like Sumatra or Acrobat X.
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Using opacity in TikZ causes strange rendering in Acrobat.
I have a problem using opacity in TikZ. Whenever I use it somewhere in a picture,
I get weird side-effects: colors in (some) other parts of the documents are changed apparently randomly and it makes ...
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TeXnicCenter & Adobe Acrobat 10
I already tried Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Sumatra PDF but all doesn't work..
The first time if I use latex -> pdf output profile it works. But if something is changed I still get the ...
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Output viewers for use with LaTeX
What viewers do you use for reviewing the beautifully-styled output of your LaTeX source?
List PDF, DVI and PostScript options.
Possibly, one entry per answer, and list platform availability, ...
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How to annotate PDF files generated by pdflatex?
I want to annotate some PDF files (created with pdflatex), e.g.
word x is missing here
this part of a sentence should be moved to the front
replace word x by y
highlight this sentence
insert a note
...
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Configure TexnicCenter with something else than Adobe Reader X
My Adobe decided it should be version X now, and it misbehaves in so many ways. One way is that it is impossible to get it to open a pdf document from within TexnicCenter (or I missed something...) ...
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Is there a specialized Pdf viewer for Latex-Beamer presentations on Linux?
Most of the time when presenting a talk people connect their laptop to a video projector. So they effectively have an extra screen at their disposal. Because of that many Software options for ...
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How to make text copy in PDF previewers ignore lineno line numbers?
I'm using lineno for a document. I have it configured to put line numbers in the margins of the document. I generate PDF using pdflatex. Here's the problem: when people copy a region of text in a ...
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How to force MikTeX' texdoc to open package manuals with a PDF reader rather than the DVI viewer?
I am working on a machine with MikTeX installed. When I want to open a certain package manual, I type texdoc packagename. However, I don't want to open it with Yap (the DVI viewer in MiKTeX). Acrobat ...
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PDF reader on Linux capable of continuous updating
I am using latexmk on a Red Hat 5 machine. I use it as:
latexmk -pdf -pvc
I would like to have my PDF reader automatically update the PDF as it is changed. What PDF reader do I need for this? What ...
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How to set LaTeX so that PDF reader opens PDF file in a prespecified view?
When I open PDF file generated from .tex files in Adobe Reader I obtain 200% view and I'd like it to have much smaller? Are there some settings for my .tex files allowing to do that?
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Can we have viewer specific text in a pdf generated by pdfLaTex?
I am wondering if we could have a pdf file, which can tell what viewer its being viewed with. I was looking for some tex command, which says something like:
If viewer is Acrobat, print "Hi You are ...
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How can I make the content list of a PDF expanded by default?
I am using pdflatex to create a rather long document. The document also has a table of contents, and the PDF naturally has some metadata of this list of contents that I can view in my PDF viewer ...
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Adobe Reader and xcolor within a table breaks the line render
I'm using the xcolor package to colour the top row in a table. This is displayed properly using PDF viewers such as Preview or Skim (Mac). But using Adobe Reader 10.1.3 (either Windows or Mac) doesn't ...
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Comma inside \texttt{} does’nt show up
I am trying to print a comma inside a \texttt{} tag, but it is not printing:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\texttt{foo, bar}
\end{document}
produces:
foo bar
not
foo, bar
How ...
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Creating a PDF bookmark that goes straight to a section heading, not above or below it.
Is it possible to create a new bookmark to a section heading that is not listed in the Table of Contents (i.e., using the starred form — \section*{A title})?
\pdfbookmark (part of hyperref.sty) or ...
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How to get TeXnicCenter to remember the last page viewed in output PDF (as done automatically by TeXworks)
I am using LaTeX=>PDF.
When using TeXworks if I change the source .tex file the PDF viewer remembers the last page which was viewed and shows that page in the output PDF.
Whilst using ...
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Can programs (e.g. Matlab) be made executable from within the PDF?
Is it possible to include a program (as in say Matlab, Maple, etc.) within a LaTeX file in such a way that clicking a button on the resulting PDF file will transport the program to the related ...
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Emacs Quick View (C-c C-v) fails after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04
I upgraded to Ubuntu Linux 11.04 yesterday, and I realize that Quick View (C-c C-v) in Emacs, which opened pdf with okular, does not work anymore. C-c C-v does nothing now; I also try to launch it via ...
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Why does my PDF render differently in Windows and Linux?
I'm not trying anything fancy just a plain vanilla
\title{Practical Node.js }
However, in Linux the results look great (Document Viewer 3.2.1)
In windows it looks absolutely terrible (Adobe ...
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Which DVI viewer on linux?
Today, to my complete disbelief, I realized evince on Gnome 3 is not able to open DVI files. Which readers do you suggest, and why? It would prefer gnome applications of course, but I don't mind ...
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How to double-click in PDF document to go to source code?
When creating a document, I usually build a DVI document because the YAP viewer has a nice feature which allows me to double-click on a word in the DVI document which then causes the source-code ...
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How do I open the internal viewer in a custom Quick Build command with TeXStudio or TeXMaker?
I'm using TeXStudio 2.2 (A fork of TeXMaker, formerly known as TeXMakerX) and I'm trying to make a Quickbuild option that adds in Bibtex. I've written the command line as
pdflatex ...
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latexmk -pvc option breaks when compiling beamer class
latexmk is the tool I'm using to compile my documents, and the -pvc option is the one which is normally on. In this setting, when I save a file which produces a compilation error, then latexmk informs ...
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alternative text to be displayed in the PDF viewer's table of content
I use the hyperref and the bookmark package. Hence the table of content (toc) of the document gets also displayed in the side bar of the PDF reader, when viewing the generated document.
My problem is ...
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building and viewing PDFs on Kile opens multiple instances of the same file
I've been a relatively long-time user of TeXnicCenter, and whenever I recompiled a tex file to PDF and viewed the output in that program, I would get an updated version of the PDF that was already ...
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texmaker 4.0.1 for OS X Pdf Viewer does not work
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6gedrfsgts9d22z/problem.png
with "external viewer" it works fine. But there is a problem with the pdf viewer that it shows the text too wide, there is something wrong with ...
