MacOSX PDF viewer: Automatic reload on file modification
Is there a PDF viewer out there for MacOSX that support automatic reload of (in my case LaTex generated) PDFs when they're modified by another application?
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asked Feb 1 '12 at 12:52
EricEric
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Is there a PDF viewer out there for MacOSX that support automatic reload of (in my case LaTex generated) PDFs when they're modified by another application?
mac viewers
asked Feb 1 '12 at 12:52
EricEric
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TeXShop can be configured to use an external editor. This effectively slaves its auto-updating viewer to whatever editor you like. Does this fit the bill?
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 12:55
I'm currently using AquaMacs + latexmk to produce my PDFs, so I'm afraid no ;) Okular under Linux e.g. works just perfect, reloads the file and jumps automatically to the same position of the document I'd been before. Adobe Acrobat (Pro) just breaks and spills error messages when scrolling in a modified document...
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 12:59
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I use Preview.app (the default PDF viewer which comes with OSX), and it reloads automatically the document.
– morbusg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:04
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Skim is pretty good in this respect and has SyncTeX integration with Aquamacs out of the box.
– egreg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:05
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@MarkS.Everitt: yes, I think I really misunderstood. Thanks for your effort. I'm trying different things at the moment and will also have a go on TeXShop.
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:43
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Is there a PDF viewer out there for MacOSX that support automatic reload of (in my case LaTex generated) PDFs when they're modified by another application?
mac viewers
asked Feb 1 '12 at 12:52
EricEric
1,35951725
Is there a PDF viewer out there for MacOSX that support automatic reload of (in my case LaTex generated) PDFs when they're modified by another application?
mac viewers
mac viewers
asked Feb 1 '12 at 12:52
EricEric
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asked Feb 1 '12 at 12:52
EricEric
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asked Feb 1 '12 at 12:52
EricEric
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asked Feb 1 '12 at 12:52
EricEric
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asked Feb 1 '12 at 12:52
EricEric
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2
TeXShop can be configured to use an external editor. This effectively slaves its auto-updating viewer to whatever editor you like. Does this fit the bill?
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 12:55
I'm currently using AquaMacs + latexmk to produce my PDFs, so I'm afraid no ;) Okular under Linux e.g. works just perfect, reloads the file and jumps automatically to the same position of the document I'd been before. Adobe Acrobat (Pro) just breaks and spills error messages when scrolling in a modified document...
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 12:59
7
I use Preview.app (the default PDF viewer which comes with OSX), and it reloads automatically the document.
– morbusg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:04
3
Skim is pretty good in this respect and has SyncTeX integration with Aquamacs out of the box.
– egreg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:05
2
@MarkS.Everitt: yes, I think I really misunderstood. Thanks for your effort. I'm trying different things at the moment and will also have a go on TeXShop.
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:43
|
show 4 more comments
2
TeXShop can be configured to use an external editor. This effectively slaves its auto-updating viewer to whatever editor you like. Does this fit the bill?
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 12:55
I'm currently using AquaMacs + latexmk to produce my PDFs, so I'm afraid no ;) Okular under Linux e.g. works just perfect, reloads the file and jumps automatically to the same position of the document I'd been before. Adobe Acrobat (Pro) just breaks and spills error messages when scrolling in a modified document...
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 12:59
7
I use Preview.app (the default PDF viewer which comes with OSX), and it reloads automatically the document.
– morbusg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:04
3
Skim is pretty good in this respect and has SyncTeX integration with Aquamacs out of the box.
– egreg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:05
2
@MarkS.Everitt: yes, I think I really misunderstood. Thanks for your effort. I'm trying different things at the moment and will also have a go on TeXShop.
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:43
2
2
TeXShop can be configured to use an external editor. This effectively slaves its auto-updating viewer to whatever editor you like. Does this fit the bill?
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 12:55
TeXShop can be configured to use an external editor. This effectively slaves its auto-updating viewer to whatever editor you like. Does this fit the bill?
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 12:55
I'm currently using AquaMacs + latexmk to produce my PDFs, so I'm afraid no ;) Okular under Linux e.g. works just perfect, reloads the file and jumps automatically to the same position of the document I'd been before. Adobe Acrobat (Pro) just breaks and spills error messages when scrolling in a modified document...
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 12:59
I'm currently using AquaMacs + latexmk to produce my PDFs, so I'm afraid no ;) Okular under Linux e.g. works just perfect, reloads the file and jumps automatically to the same position of the document I'd been before. Adobe Acrobat (Pro) just breaks and spills error messages when scrolling in a modified document...
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 12:59
7
7
I use Preview.app (the default PDF viewer which comes with OSX), and it reloads automatically the document.
– morbusg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:04
I use Preview.app (the default PDF viewer which comes with OSX), and it reloads automatically the document.
– morbusg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:04
3
3
Skim is pretty good in this respect and has SyncTeX integration with Aquamacs out of the box.
– egreg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:05
Skim is pretty good in this respect and has SyncTeX integration with Aquamacs out of the box.
– egreg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:05
2
2
@MarkS.Everitt: yes, I think I really misunderstood. Thanks for your effort. I'm trying different things at the moment and will also have a go on TeXShop.
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:43
@MarkS.Everitt: yes, I think I really misunderstood. Thanks for your effort. I'm trying different things at the moment and will also have a go on TeXShop.
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:43
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Skim provides this feature. It also provides pdfsync synchronization, so I would consider it as the favorite PDF viewer for LaTeX!
One nuisance about Skim is that on the first change it asks you if you really want to reload the document. There is, however, a hidden preference to disable this behavior:
defaults write -app Skim SKAutoReloadFileUpdate -boolean true
Another potential nuisance: If you compile very large (that is, computation-intensive) documents, Skim sometimes gets out of sync with the file system or even crashes; for details look into this answer.
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34
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answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:10
DanielDaniel
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Thanks - I haven't used Skim for a while and here everything works as expected. Thanks!
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:45
3
Skim is great. Overall. But if you ask for any additional features, there's a good chance that you'll get a rude response from the programmers. I will be happy when someone creates a PDF reader as good as Skim with additional features such as the ability to change pages with a single key, and vertical split. Sigh.
– Mars
May 25 '13 at 2:12
2
Skim is a great program but ever since Yosemite, text rendered by Skim is very ugly (fuzzy and unclear), while Acrobat is crisp and clear. Somebody should definitely find a way to make Acrobat reload automatically…
– yannis
Oct 19 '14 at 17:13
2
For those who considered not using Skim due to @oarfish's comment, this feature seems to have been added since. However, it seems you need to enable autoupdating by checking a box in "Skim > Preferences > Sync".
– Brian McCutchon
Oct 8 '15 at 22:56
1
@Daniel You are correct. I was looking at an outdated page, sorry.
– becko
Aug 9 '17 at 16:12
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This is simple with TeXShop installed. First launch TeXShop, and go into the preferences. In the second tab there is a tick box title called Automatic Preview Update. Make sure it's ticked.
Now ok that, and quit TeXShop (you need to quit and reopen to make it honour the preference). Now all you need to do is open the pdf you're working on with TeXShop, and the TeX file in your editor of choice. Any changes to the pdf will make the viewer refresh.
As you're using AquaMacs, you'll probably need to enable SyncTeX (if you want it) in the AucTeX options. There are more instructions on that here.
answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:07
qubytequbyte
13.4k44288
9
TexShop viewer will steal focus when autoload. Is there any way to make it stay in the background? I don't want to manually switch back to my editor for changes.
– Rio
Apr 5 '14 at 21:35
10
@Rio, this can be done by typingdefaults write TeXShop BringPdfFrontOnAutomaticUpdate NOin the terminal.
– Alexander Kachkaev
Jul 1 '14 at 22:02
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As OS X has built-in capability of displaying PDF, there are several application based on it. Preview.app is shipped with OS X, Skim is a sourceforge project and TeXShop (mentioned in another answer) is shipped with MacTeX. All of these support automatic reloading. Note that these viewers have a few limitations compared to the Adobe Reader, for example they cannot display layers (OCGs) selectively, they do not execute JavaScript and have a few other problems (see for example the recent question about hyphenation and searchable pdf).
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answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:16
topskiptopskip
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This is a good point, and is most apparent (to me) when using the animate package.
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 13:22
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@Patrick: as far as Preview.app is concerned there appears to be a bug; there's no need to manually reload the file but one hast to switch processes first in order to get Preview to notice, that a file modification occurred. Can somebody please verify this behavior?
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:47
3
@Eric: It is like that and (I remember reading in some Apple forum that this is "by design"). Solution: Use Skim :-)
– Daniel
Feb 1 '12 at 14:53
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The Mac default viewer preview does this. As long as you make some other application active, when you bring preview to the front, the reload occurs.
For me, I use LaTeX to generate the new pdf in one application and when I bring the preview version back up, the changes have been reloaded.
answered Dec 2 '16 at 4:30
JoelJoel
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Nope, it doesn't.
– Walter
May 26 '18 at 21:39
1
Preview 10.0 on OSX 10.13.3 (High Sierra) does. So has every other version I've tried over the years. What are you running?
– Joel
May 27 '18 at 9:10
I can confirm thatpreviewversion10.0running on macOS High Sierra10.13.6automatically reloads the file content when switching between an editor and viewer using⌘+tab.
– breandan
Dec 29 '18 at 22:51
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Skim provides this feature. It also provides pdfsync synchronization, so I would consider it as the favorite PDF viewer for LaTeX!
One nuisance about Skim is that on the first change it asks you if you really want to reload the document. There is, however, a hidden preference to disable this behavior:
defaults write -app Skim SKAutoReloadFileUpdate -boolean true
Another potential nuisance: If you compile very large (that is, computation-intensive) documents, Skim sometimes gets out of sync with the file system or even crashes; for details look into this answer.
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34
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answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:10
DanielDaniel
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Thanks - I haven't used Skim for a while and here everything works as expected. Thanks!
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:45
3
Skim is great. Overall. But if you ask for any additional features, there's a good chance that you'll get a rude response from the programmers. I will be happy when someone creates a PDF reader as good as Skim with additional features such as the ability to change pages with a single key, and vertical split. Sigh.
– Mars
May 25 '13 at 2:12
2
Skim is a great program but ever since Yosemite, text rendered by Skim is very ugly (fuzzy and unclear), while Acrobat is crisp and clear. Somebody should definitely find a way to make Acrobat reload automatically…
– yannis
Oct 19 '14 at 17:13
2
For those who considered not using Skim due to @oarfish's comment, this feature seems to have been added since. However, it seems you need to enable autoupdating by checking a box in "Skim > Preferences > Sync".
– Brian McCutchon
Oct 8 '15 at 22:56
1
@Daniel You are correct. I was looking at an outdated page, sorry.
– becko
Aug 9 '17 at 16:12
|
show 7 more comments
Skim provides this feature. It also provides pdfsync synchronization, so I would consider it as the favorite PDF viewer for LaTeX!
One nuisance about Skim is that on the first change it asks you if you really want to reload the document. There is, however, a hidden preference to disable this behavior:
defaults write -app Skim SKAutoReloadFileUpdate -boolean true
Another potential nuisance: If you compile very large (that is, computation-intensive) documents, Skim sometimes gets out of sync with the file system or even crashes; for details look into this answer.
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34
Community♦
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answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:10
DanielDaniel
29.2k670152
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Thanks - I haven't used Skim for a while and here everything works as expected. Thanks!
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:45
3
Skim is great. Overall. But if you ask for any additional features, there's a good chance that you'll get a rude response from the programmers. I will be happy when someone creates a PDF reader as good as Skim with additional features such as the ability to change pages with a single key, and vertical split. Sigh.
– Mars
May 25 '13 at 2:12
2
Skim is a great program but ever since Yosemite, text rendered by Skim is very ugly (fuzzy and unclear), while Acrobat is crisp and clear. Somebody should definitely find a way to make Acrobat reload automatically…
– yannis
Oct 19 '14 at 17:13
2
For those who considered not using Skim due to @oarfish's comment, this feature seems to have been added since. However, it seems you need to enable autoupdating by checking a box in "Skim > Preferences > Sync".
– Brian McCutchon
Oct 8 '15 at 22:56
1
@Daniel You are correct. I was looking at an outdated page, sorry.
– becko
Aug 9 '17 at 16:12
|
show 7 more comments
Skim provides this feature. It also provides pdfsync synchronization, so I would consider it as the favorite PDF viewer for LaTeX!
One nuisance about Skim is that on the first change it asks you if you really want to reload the document. There is, however, a hidden preference to disable this behavior:
defaults write -app Skim SKAutoReloadFileUpdate -boolean true
Another potential nuisance: If you compile very large (that is, computation-intensive) documents, Skim sometimes gets out of sync with the file system or even crashes; for details look into this answer.
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34
Community♦
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answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:10
DanielDaniel
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Skim provides this feature. It also provides pdfsync synchronization, so I would consider it as the favorite PDF viewer for LaTeX!
One nuisance about Skim is that on the first change it asks you if you really want to reload the document. There is, however, a hidden preference to disable this behavior:
defaults write -app Skim SKAutoReloadFileUpdate -boolean true
Another potential nuisance: If you compile very large (that is, computation-intensive) documents, Skim sometimes gets out of sync with the file system or even crashes; for details look into this answer.
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Thanks - I haven't used Skim for a while and here everything works as expected. Thanks!
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:45
3
Skim is great. Overall. But if you ask for any additional features, there's a good chance that you'll get a rude response from the programmers. I will be happy when someone creates a PDF reader as good as Skim with additional features such as the ability to change pages with a single key, and vertical split. Sigh.
– Mars
May 25 '13 at 2:12
2
Skim is a great program but ever since Yosemite, text rendered by Skim is very ugly (fuzzy and unclear), while Acrobat is crisp and clear. Somebody should definitely find a way to make Acrobat reload automatically…
– yannis
Oct 19 '14 at 17:13
2
For those who considered not using Skim due to @oarfish's comment, this feature seems to have been added since. However, it seems you need to enable autoupdating by checking a box in "Skim > Preferences > Sync".
– Brian McCutchon
Oct 8 '15 at 22:56
1
@Daniel You are correct. I was looking at an outdated page, sorry.
– becko
Aug 9 '17 at 16:12
|
show 7 more comments
2
Thanks - I haven't used Skim for a while and here everything works as expected. Thanks!
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:45
3
Skim is great. Overall. But if you ask for any additional features, there's a good chance that you'll get a rude response from the programmers. I will be happy when someone creates a PDF reader as good as Skim with additional features such as the ability to change pages with a single key, and vertical split. Sigh.
– Mars
May 25 '13 at 2:12
2
Skim is a great program but ever since Yosemite, text rendered by Skim is very ugly (fuzzy and unclear), while Acrobat is crisp and clear. Somebody should definitely find a way to make Acrobat reload automatically…
– yannis
Oct 19 '14 at 17:13
2
For those who considered not using Skim due to @oarfish's comment, this feature seems to have been added since. However, it seems you need to enable autoupdating by checking a box in "Skim > Preferences > Sync".
– Brian McCutchon
Oct 8 '15 at 22:56
1
@Daniel You are correct. I was looking at an outdated page, sorry.
– becko
Aug 9 '17 at 16:12
2
2
Thanks - I haven't used Skim for a while and here everything works as expected. Thanks!
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:45
Thanks - I haven't used Skim for a while and here everything works as expected. Thanks!
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:45
3
3
Skim is great. Overall. But if you ask for any additional features, there's a good chance that you'll get a rude response from the programmers. I will be happy when someone creates a PDF reader as good as Skim with additional features such as the ability to change pages with a single key, and vertical split. Sigh.
– Mars
May 25 '13 at 2:12
Skim is great. Overall. But if you ask for any additional features, there's a good chance that you'll get a rude response from the programmers. I will be happy when someone creates a PDF reader as good as Skim with additional features such as the ability to change pages with a single key, and vertical split. Sigh.
– Mars
May 25 '13 at 2:12
2
2
Skim is a great program but ever since Yosemite, text rendered by Skim is very ugly (fuzzy and unclear), while Acrobat is crisp and clear. Somebody should definitely find a way to make Acrobat reload automatically…
– yannis
Oct 19 '14 at 17:13
Skim is a great program but ever since Yosemite, text rendered by Skim is very ugly (fuzzy and unclear), while Acrobat is crisp and clear. Somebody should definitely find a way to make Acrobat reload automatically…
– yannis
Oct 19 '14 at 17:13
2
2
For those who considered not using Skim due to @oarfish's comment, this feature seems to have been added since. However, it seems you need to enable autoupdating by checking a box in "Skim > Preferences > Sync".
– Brian McCutchon
Oct 8 '15 at 22:56
For those who considered not using Skim due to @oarfish's comment, this feature seems to have been added since. However, it seems you need to enable autoupdating by checking a box in "Skim > Preferences > Sync".
– Brian McCutchon
Oct 8 '15 at 22:56
1
1
@Daniel You are correct. I was looking at an outdated page, sorry.
– becko
Aug 9 '17 at 16:12
@Daniel You are correct. I was looking at an outdated page, sorry.
– becko
Aug 9 '17 at 16:12
|
show 7 more comments
This is simple with TeXShop installed. First launch TeXShop, and go into the preferences. In the second tab there is a tick box title called Automatic Preview Update. Make sure it's ticked.
Now ok that, and quit TeXShop (you need to quit and reopen to make it honour the preference). Now all you need to do is open the pdf you're working on with TeXShop, and the TeX file in your editor of choice. Any changes to the pdf will make the viewer refresh.
As you're using AquaMacs, you'll probably need to enable SyncTeX (if you want it) in the AucTeX options. There are more instructions on that here.
answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:07
qubytequbyte
13.4k44288
9
TexShop viewer will steal focus when autoload. Is there any way to make it stay in the background? I don't want to manually switch back to my editor for changes.
– Rio
Apr 5 '14 at 21:35
10
@Rio, this can be done by typingdefaults write TeXShop BringPdfFrontOnAutomaticUpdate NOin the terminal.
– Alexander Kachkaev
Jul 1 '14 at 22:02
add a comment |
This is simple with TeXShop installed. First launch TeXShop, and go into the preferences. In the second tab there is a tick box title called Automatic Preview Update. Make sure it's ticked.
Now ok that, and quit TeXShop (you need to quit and reopen to make it honour the preference). Now all you need to do is open the pdf you're working on with TeXShop, and the TeX file in your editor of choice. Any changes to the pdf will make the viewer refresh.
As you're using AquaMacs, you'll probably need to enable SyncTeX (if you want it) in the AucTeX options. There are more instructions on that here.
answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:07
qubytequbyte
13.4k44288
9
TexShop viewer will steal focus when autoload. Is there any way to make it stay in the background? I don't want to manually switch back to my editor for changes.
– Rio
Apr 5 '14 at 21:35
10
@Rio, this can be done by typingdefaults write TeXShop BringPdfFrontOnAutomaticUpdate NOin the terminal.
– Alexander Kachkaev
Jul 1 '14 at 22:02
add a comment |
This is simple with TeXShop installed. First launch TeXShop, and go into the preferences. In the second tab there is a tick box title called Automatic Preview Update. Make sure it's ticked.
Now ok that, and quit TeXShop (you need to quit and reopen to make it honour the preference). Now all you need to do is open the pdf you're working on with TeXShop, and the TeX file in your editor of choice. Any changes to the pdf will make the viewer refresh.
As you're using AquaMacs, you'll probably need to enable SyncTeX (if you want it) in the AucTeX options. There are more instructions on that here.
answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:07
qubytequbyte
13.4k44288
This is simple with TeXShop installed. First launch TeXShop, and go into the preferences. In the second tab there is a tick box title called Automatic Preview Update. Make sure it's ticked.
Now ok that, and quit TeXShop (you need to quit and reopen to make it honour the preference). Now all you need to do is open the pdf you're working on with TeXShop, and the TeX file in your editor of choice. Any changes to the pdf will make the viewer refresh.
As you're using AquaMacs, you'll probably need to enable SyncTeX (if you want it) in the AucTeX options. There are more instructions on that here.
answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:07
qubytequbyte
13.4k44288
edited Feb 1 '12 at 13:20
answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:07
qubytequbyte
13.4k44288
answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:07
qubytequbyte
13.4k44288
answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:07
qubytequbyte
13.4k44288
13.4k44288
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TexShop viewer will steal focus when autoload. Is there any way to make it stay in the background? I don't want to manually switch back to my editor for changes.
– Rio
Apr 5 '14 at 21:35
10
@Rio, this can be done by typingdefaults write TeXShop BringPdfFrontOnAutomaticUpdate NOin the terminal.
– Alexander Kachkaev
Jul 1 '14 at 22:02
add a comment |
9
TexShop viewer will steal focus when autoload. Is there any way to make it stay in the background? I don't want to manually switch back to my editor for changes.
– Rio
Apr 5 '14 at 21:35
10
@Rio, this can be done by typingdefaults write TeXShop BringPdfFrontOnAutomaticUpdate NOin the terminal.
– Alexander Kachkaev
Jul 1 '14 at 22:02
9
9
TexShop viewer will steal focus when autoload. Is there any way to make it stay in the background? I don't want to manually switch back to my editor for changes.
– Rio
Apr 5 '14 at 21:35
TexShop viewer will steal focus when autoload. Is there any way to make it stay in the background? I don't want to manually switch back to my editor for changes.
– Rio
Apr 5 '14 at 21:35
10
10
@Rio, this can be done by typing
defaults write TeXShop BringPdfFrontOnAutomaticUpdate NO in the terminal.– Alexander Kachkaev
Jul 1 '14 at 22:02
@Rio, this can be done by typing
defaults write TeXShop BringPdfFrontOnAutomaticUpdate NO in the terminal.– Alexander Kachkaev
Jul 1 '14 at 22:02
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As OS X has built-in capability of displaying PDF, there are several application based on it. Preview.app is shipped with OS X, Skim is a sourceforge project and TeXShop (mentioned in another answer) is shipped with MacTeX. All of these support automatic reloading. Note that these viewers have a few limitations compared to the Adobe Reader, for example they cannot display layers (OCGs) selectively, they do not execute JavaScript and have a few other problems (see for example the recent question about hyphenation and searchable pdf).
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This is a good point, and is most apparent (to me) when using the animate package.
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 13:22
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@Patrick: as far as Preview.app is concerned there appears to be a bug; there's no need to manually reload the file but one hast to switch processes first in order to get Preview to notice, that a file modification occurred. Can somebody please verify this behavior?
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:47
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@Eric: It is like that and (I remember reading in some Apple forum that this is "by design"). Solution: Use Skim :-)
– Daniel
Feb 1 '12 at 14:53
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As OS X has built-in capability of displaying PDF, there are several application based on it. Preview.app is shipped with OS X, Skim is a sourceforge project and TeXShop (mentioned in another answer) is shipped with MacTeX. All of these support automatic reloading. Note that these viewers have a few limitations compared to the Adobe Reader, for example they cannot display layers (OCGs) selectively, they do not execute JavaScript and have a few other problems (see for example the recent question about hyphenation and searchable pdf).
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35
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answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:16
topskiptopskip
28.3k7116214
This is a good point, and is most apparent (to me) when using the animate package.
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 13:22
1
@Patrick: as far as Preview.app is concerned there appears to be a bug; there's no need to manually reload the file but one hast to switch processes first in order to get Preview to notice, that a file modification occurred. Can somebody please verify this behavior?
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:47
3
@Eric: It is like that and (I remember reading in some Apple forum that this is "by design"). Solution: Use Skim :-)
– Daniel
Feb 1 '12 at 14:53
add a comment |
As OS X has built-in capability of displaying PDF, there are several application based on it. Preview.app is shipped with OS X, Skim is a sourceforge project and TeXShop (mentioned in another answer) is shipped with MacTeX. All of these support automatic reloading. Note that these viewers have a few limitations compared to the Adobe Reader, for example they cannot display layers (OCGs) selectively, they do not execute JavaScript and have a few other problems (see for example the recent question about hyphenation and searchable pdf).
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35
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answered Feb 1 '12 at 13:16
topskiptopskip
28.3k7116214
As OS X has built-in capability of displaying PDF, there are several application based on it. Preview.app is shipped with OS X, Skim is a sourceforge project and TeXShop (mentioned in another answer) is shipped with MacTeX. All of these support automatic reloading. Note that these viewers have a few limitations compared to the Adobe Reader, for example they cannot display layers (OCGs) selectively, they do not execute JavaScript and have a few other problems (see for example the recent question about hyphenation and searchable pdf).
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This is a good point, and is most apparent (to me) when using the animate package.
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 13:22
1
@Patrick: as far as Preview.app is concerned there appears to be a bug; there's no need to manually reload the file but one hast to switch processes first in order to get Preview to notice, that a file modification occurred. Can somebody please verify this behavior?
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:47
3
@Eric: It is like that and (I remember reading in some Apple forum that this is "by design"). Solution: Use Skim :-)
– Daniel
Feb 1 '12 at 14:53
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This is a good point, and is most apparent (to me) when using the animate package.
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 13:22
1
@Patrick: as far as Preview.app is concerned there appears to be a bug; there's no need to manually reload the file but one hast to switch processes first in order to get Preview to notice, that a file modification occurred. Can somebody please verify this behavior?
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:47
3
@Eric: It is like that and (I remember reading in some Apple forum that this is "by design"). Solution: Use Skim :-)
– Daniel
Feb 1 '12 at 14:53
This is a good point, and is most apparent (to me) when using the animate package.
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 13:22
This is a good point, and is most apparent (to me) when using the animate package.
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 13:22
1
1
@Patrick: as far as Preview.app is concerned there appears to be a bug; there's no need to manually reload the file but one hast to switch processes first in order to get Preview to notice, that a file modification occurred. Can somebody please verify this behavior?
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:47
@Patrick: as far as Preview.app is concerned there appears to be a bug; there's no need to manually reload the file but one hast to switch processes first in order to get Preview to notice, that a file modification occurred. Can somebody please verify this behavior?
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:47
3
3
@Eric: It is like that and (I remember reading in some Apple forum that this is "by design"). Solution: Use Skim :-)
– Daniel
Feb 1 '12 at 14:53
@Eric: It is like that and (I remember reading in some Apple forum that this is "by design"). Solution: Use Skim :-)
– Daniel
Feb 1 '12 at 14:53
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The Mac default viewer preview does this. As long as you make some other application active, when you bring preview to the front, the reload occurs.
For me, I use LaTeX to generate the new pdf in one application and when I bring the preview version back up, the changes have been reloaded.
answered Dec 2 '16 at 4:30
JoelJoel
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Nope, it doesn't.
– Walter
May 26 '18 at 21:39
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Preview 10.0 on OSX 10.13.3 (High Sierra) does. So has every other version I've tried over the years. What are you running?
– Joel
May 27 '18 at 9:10
I can confirm thatpreviewversion10.0running on macOS High Sierra10.13.6automatically reloads the file content when switching between an editor and viewer using⌘+tab.
– breandan
Dec 29 '18 at 22:51
add a comment |
The Mac default viewer preview does this. As long as you make some other application active, when you bring preview to the front, the reload occurs.
For me, I use LaTeX to generate the new pdf in one application and when I bring the preview version back up, the changes have been reloaded.
answered Dec 2 '16 at 4:30
JoelJoel
1,049819
Nope, it doesn't.
– Walter
May 26 '18 at 21:39
1
Preview 10.0 on OSX 10.13.3 (High Sierra) does. So has every other version I've tried over the years. What are you running?
– Joel
May 27 '18 at 9:10
I can confirm thatpreviewversion10.0running on macOS High Sierra10.13.6automatically reloads the file content when switching between an editor and viewer using⌘+tab.
– breandan
Dec 29 '18 at 22:51
add a comment |
The Mac default viewer preview does this. As long as you make some other application active, when you bring preview to the front, the reload occurs.
For me, I use LaTeX to generate the new pdf in one application and when I bring the preview version back up, the changes have been reloaded.
answered Dec 2 '16 at 4:30
JoelJoel
1,049819
The Mac default viewer preview does this. As long as you make some other application active, when you bring preview to the front, the reload occurs.
For me, I use LaTeX to generate the new pdf in one application and when I bring the preview version back up, the changes have been reloaded.
answered Dec 2 '16 at 4:30
JoelJoel
1,049819
edited Jan 16 at 23:41
answered Dec 2 '16 at 4:30
JoelJoel
1,049819
answered Dec 2 '16 at 4:30
JoelJoel
1,049819
answered Dec 2 '16 at 4:30
JoelJoel
1,049819
1,049819
Nope, it doesn't.
– Walter
May 26 '18 at 21:39
1
Preview 10.0 on OSX 10.13.3 (High Sierra) does. So has every other version I've tried over the years. What are you running?
– Joel
May 27 '18 at 9:10
I can confirm thatpreviewversion10.0running on macOS High Sierra10.13.6automatically reloads the file content when switching between an editor and viewer using⌘+tab.
– breandan
Dec 29 '18 at 22:51
add a comment |
Nope, it doesn't.
– Walter
May 26 '18 at 21:39
1
Preview 10.0 on OSX 10.13.3 (High Sierra) does. So has every other version I've tried over the years. What are you running?
– Joel
May 27 '18 at 9:10
I can confirm thatpreviewversion10.0running on macOS High Sierra10.13.6automatically reloads the file content when switching between an editor and viewer using⌘+tab.
– breandan
Dec 29 '18 at 22:51
Nope, it doesn't.
– Walter
May 26 '18 at 21:39
Nope, it doesn't.
– Walter
May 26 '18 at 21:39
1
1
Preview 10.0 on OSX 10.13.3 (High Sierra) does. So has every other version I've tried over the years. What are you running?
– Joel
May 27 '18 at 9:10
Preview 10.0 on OSX 10.13.3 (High Sierra) does. So has every other version I've tried over the years. What are you running?
– Joel
May 27 '18 at 9:10
I can confirm that
preview version 10.0 running on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 automatically reloads the file content when switching between an editor and viewer using ⌘+tab.– breandan
Dec 29 '18 at 22:51
I can confirm that
preview version 10.0 running on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 automatically reloads the file content when switching between an editor and viewer using ⌘+tab.– breandan
Dec 29 '18 at 22:51
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TeXShop can be configured to use an external editor. This effectively slaves its auto-updating viewer to whatever editor you like. Does this fit the bill?
– qubyte
Feb 1 '12 at 12:55
I'm currently using AquaMacs + latexmk to produce my PDFs, so I'm afraid no ;) Okular under Linux e.g. works just perfect, reloads the file and jumps automatically to the same position of the document I'd been before. Adobe Acrobat (Pro) just breaks and spills error messages when scrolling in a modified document...
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 12:59
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I use Preview.app (the default PDF viewer which comes with OSX), and it reloads automatically the document.
– morbusg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:04
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Skim is pretty good in this respect and has SyncTeX integration with Aquamacs out of the box.
– egreg
Feb 1 '12 at 13:05
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@MarkS.Everitt: yes, I think I really misunderstood. Thanks for your effort. I'm trying different things at the moment and will also have a go on TeXShop.
– Eric
Feb 1 '12 at 13:43