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From: Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com>
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Subject: Re: TexLive vs pdf PS
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:07:32 -0700
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On 11/27/2024 12:51 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

Whoops! I meant Tex Works, not TexLive.

> sorry if I'm asking my questions in the wrong forum; if that's the case, 
> please redirect me to the right place.
> 
> I'm in the process of building new Windows 11 machines after running 
> Windows 7 for about a decade. I installed MiXTeX on a new machine and 
> was delighted to see that it included the TexLive editor which I have 
> heard of but never used. So I tried a few line example and ran PDFLaTeX 
> on it - TexLive picked up the MiXTeX compiler without any real assist 
> from me. I displayed the output file then typed control-p at which time 
> I was told that the TexLive viewer wasn't clever enough to print and I 
> was offered a choice to use the machine (Windows) default viewer.
> 
> Since my default, was the Adobe Reader, that choice would have the 
> undesirable effect of locking the file so I could not recompile until I 
> remembered to quit Adobe. I downloaded the Sumatra PDF program which 
> more gently interacts with TeX-based systems, made it my default PDF 
> handler, recompiled my example, tried to print the PDF output, got the 
> same message and elected to "use the Windows default program (= Sumatra 
> at this point). Happily, it printed.
> 
> For reasons not germane to my problem, I need to have the default PDF 
> handler set to The Adobe Reader. So I switched that default back to 
> Adobe after closing TexLive. Next, I repeated the process of using 
> TexLive to to compile my test file and display the PDF output. The only 
> thing in TexLive's memory was that it was supposed to use the default 
> PDF handler. Since that was now, Adobe, that's what it used. The fact 
> that it was set to Sumatra the last time through was forgotten.
> 
> So my question is obvious after this lengthy description: How do I tell 
> TexLive to use Sumatra in a way that the choice will be remembered?