{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.
Questions tagged [viewers]
418 questions
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Free PDF viewer allowing to measure in a document?
Adobe Acrobat allows to measure distances in a document, which is helpful and saves making test printouts when trying to get a certain layout right point-perfect.
Is there a free (as in beer) PDF viewer that allows the same? Or can a PDF viewer…
DevSolar
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PDF viewer with dual page option?
I wonder if there is a viewer, or a whole TeX package allowing me to display two pages side by side. I have two big monitors and I cannot use them effectively now. PCTEX comes close but not quite - it has a DVI viewer, which creates a lot of…
ABC
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Specify external application to open a file in a pdf link generated by latex
In beamer presentations produced by the LaTeX-beamer package, I usually do something like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\href{run:myjava.jar}{Open Java Application}
\href{run:mypdf.pdf}{Open a…
student
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Smooth (near)realtime update in skim
I have a problem that is kind of a first-world problem. I work with vimtex and autosave where the pdf is displayed in skim. When the document is updated (through autosave), the pdf flashes for a second. So, the update is not smooth. Actually, in…
user2679290
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PDF in main viewer instead of new window
Since I re-installed LaTeX a while ago, when I click "View PDF" (in Dutch: Bekijk PDF, don't really know if it's "View PDF" in the English version of LaTeX), a new window opens.
However, I'd like the pdf to appear in the main LaTeX-window, as was…
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How to tile pages in LaTeX
When a pdf is generated through LaTeX, the pages will be displayed one on
top of the other. These pages may be normally oriented or rotated (through e.g.
pdfpageattr).
What I want to know is how we could compile the pdf such that pages 1 and
2 are…
user2763361
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LaTeX in pdf annotations
I have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 17 and a given pdf file. Are there any ways to create a sticky note (or other annotation) which will contain two things:
some editable non-LaTeX text (like any usual annotation)
a rendered LaTeX formula (for example .png…
Rodvi
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How to fix Zathura showing blank pages in compiled two page LaTeX document?
Here is the minimal LaTeX file that can be used to produce the problem (on my…
herophant
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Why do rotated math labels look jagged on Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?
\documentclass[border=15pt,pstricks,12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-node,amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid,linejoin=1]
\pnodes(2,3){A}(6,6){C}(6,3){B}(10,6){D}
\pcline(A)(C)…
user173875
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vote
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Search subscript in pdf
I'd like to know if it's possible to search subscript terms in a pdf, by using keywords like F_k, when you can't have access to sources (so basically I can't use this idea).
Thank you!
tobiasBora
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Solve search for rotated or tilted words within the Zathura PDF viewer
I do not know how far this topic belongs to the field of TeX's languages and their derivatives, but I leave my question below.
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I want to know why Zathura does not find words that are rotated or tilted, and whether there is any solution to…
Yaacov NNNNM
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After Quickbuild no PDF is opened automatically
I was working with Latex normally ( I use miktex and texmaker). Usually I used to click on quickbuild, then directly and automatically the pdf open in an external window. TOday, suddenly I lost this property, I open my Latex file and try quickbuild,…
Nizar
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Options limited for PDF viewing: Acrobat or Xpdf
I'm in a locked down computing environment, where I have access to acrobat pro and to a snapshot of cygwin from a few months back, meaning that I have xpdf. These are my two options. LaTeX composition requires a PDF viewer that allows a PDF file…
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Include the image from hyperlink
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\href{http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pachydyptes_ponderosus.jpg}
{\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{picture}}
…
Muthu Kumar
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