Mark,

There appears to be something wrong with Skim. I have tried the same experiment as you and I do not get the required result.

I learned that when testing you have to make sure to delete the pdfsync file that gets created or Skim will happily use that data file. When I only have the xxx.synctex.gz file I cannot get syncing to work in either direction.

Brad

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Mark Moll <mmoll@cs.rice.edu> wrote:

On Aug 10, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Brad Miller wrote:

I've just committed a change to the LaTeX bundle in the subversion repository to add support for synctex. If your typesetting engine supports the -synctex=# option then it will be used.

syncing still works with pdfsync if you don't have the synctex option.

If you can try it out please do and let me know if you have any problems.

It doesn't seem to be working for me, but this may be a Skim problem. I have the following document called untitled.tex:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
test
\newpage
test
\end{document}
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I used xelatex (from svn) with synctex enabled to create a pdf and synctex.gz files. I open the pdf file in Skim. The following commands should then go to page 1 and page 2 (if I understand the script correctly), but they don't:

/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/Resources/displayline 3 untitled.pdf untitled.tex
/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/Resources/displayline 5 untitled.pdf untitled.tex

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Mark