[TxMt] PDFView troubles

[Niels Kobschätzki]

On Dec 15, 2006, at 9:14 PM, walter johnson wrote:

> Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Dec 15, 2006, at 8:26 PM, walter johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Newbie woes.  Had TextMate working fine with TeXniscope with the  
>>> settings below.  Then, I tried to set up PDFView (it just looks  
>>> better) according to the instructions on their web page.
>>> In the Bundle Editor I wrote over the old TeXniscope item,  
>>> calling the new item "Show in PDFView (pdfsync)" and copied the  
>>> commands from the PDFView web page for setting up TextMate.
>>>
>>> My TextMate preferences Shell Variables are:
>>>
>>> TM_LATEX_COMPILER latex
>>> TX_PSTRICKS 1
>>>
>>> I hit Command-R (Typset & View PDF) and all the tex files are  
>>> created.  I just cannot view the pdf file from within TextMate by  
>>> hitting Ctrl-Option-Command-O (Show in PDFView).
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Set the Shell-variable TM_LATEX_VIEWER to "PDFViewer" (w/out ")  
>> and it should work - just by using cmd+R (Typeset and View). At  
>> least it worked for me (PDFsync works as well then). No hassle  
>> with creating new commands…
>
> Thanks, Niels.  Now, I get "Error locating external viewer:  
> PDFViewer" (or same error if I use "/Appications/PDFView.app" as  
> the value for TM_LATEX_VIEWER.

Sorry - that was a typo
Should be set to "PDFView" (not "PDFViewer" -- "/Applications/ 
PDFView.app" won't work).
Btw. it works here on 3 different Macs all with TextMate at the  
actual SVN-checkout.

Niels