12.18.06
The new kid on the block
A new PDF viewer is out, with the admittedly not terribly exciting name of PDFView. But don’t let that fool you, this editors rocks! Lightweight, allows pdfsync, automatically resizes to an appropriate size, and all the other goodies one might want. And did I mention lightweight? Plus, I really like the icon! It is now officially my new favorite PDF viewer.
The developer, Andrea Bergia, is extremely responsive and this little app already shows great promise! I encourage you all to support Andrea and PDFView. Keep up the good work Andrea!
Later
Davide said,
December 21, 2006 at 1:11 am
It is a promising app, I will probably use it as a default viewer for pfd books. Yet, it doesn’t work as well as TeXniscope for debugging latex; unlike TeXniscope, when you compile a TeX, it doesn’t open on the place where your cursor is…
Nice App anyway,
Davide
Haris said,
December 21, 2006 at 2:31 am
Yeah we added some code to the Typeset command that makesTexniscope take you to the right spot. We would need to do the same thing with PDFView. It’s doable, and not too hard either.
Davide said,
December 21, 2006 at 4:50 am
I’d love that. That’d definitely make me switch.
BTW, thanks for the wonderful latex bundle, it made me switch from word to lates, no joke.
Davide
Haris said,
December 21, 2006 at 5:16 am
Glad to hear it!
If you follow the subversion version of the bundle btw, I just committed a fix for this.
Davide said,
December 21, 2006 at 8:12 am
OK, grand, I’ll try to download the subversion later; I have used it, just not yet for textmates bundles.
Cheers,
Davide
Davide said,
December 24, 2006 at 3:44 am
Hi Haris, and Merry Christmas in advance.
I downloaded from the SVN the latest Latex bundle build, following your and Allen’s instructions, but I guess I haven’t been able to activate it. It is in my Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles directory, but I do not see any change when compiling a Latex file. Is there a command I am missing to cativate the bundle, to tell textmate “hey, replace the old bundle with this one”?
Cheers,
Davide
Haris said,
December 24, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Davide,
Merry Christmas to you too.
All you should have to do is restart TextMate, or alternatively Reload Bundles from within TextMate, via Bundles -> Bundle Editor -> Reload Bundles. By the way, that Library directory should preferably be the main one, starting with /, and not the user one, which would be in ~/, aka /Users/yourusername/.
Btw, it is in general better to direct questions to the TextMate mailing list, for future archiving and a larger response audience.