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From: Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com>
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Subject: Re: TexLive vs pdf
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:22:05 -0700
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The only problem with the TeXworks PDF display app is that it can't 
print! Thanks for you suggestions - I'll take a look at them to see if 
they are useful.
   Jeff

On 11/28/2024 2:15 AM, Holger Schieferdecker wrote:
> I'm not familiar with TeXworks. In the settings I didn't find an option 
> to configure an external viewer.
> 
> Does it help if you open your PDF document with Sumatra before working 
> with TeXworks?
> 
> You could also switch to another editor like TeXstudio or TeXnicCenter.
> 
> TeXstudio[1] features an integrated PDF viewer, but can also be 
> configured to use an external one like Sumatra. It is under active 
> development.
> 
> The development of TeXnicCenter[2] more or less stopped, but I use it 
> without problems. It can also be configured to work with Sumatra.
> 
> Holger
> 
> [1] https://www.texstudio.org/
> [2] https://www.texniccenter.org/
> 
> 
> Am 27.11.2024 um 08:51 schrieb Jeff Barnett:
>> 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?
>