[TxMt] PDFView troubles

walter johnson walterjohnson at localnet.com
Fri Dec 15 21:49:07 UTC 2006


Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
> 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
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Niels,

Works great.  Thanks so much.


-walter



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