<div dir="ltr"><div>I have used the TexWorks PDF viewer that comes with MikTeX on Windows in the past</div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure if it is better than Okular, but found it useful for building up cave surveys with the PDF still open and updating</div><div><br></div><div>(it is built for when you are writing LaTeX documents and your PDF file is being updated regularly, each time you hit recompile in LaTeX)<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 at 07:50, Bruce Mutton <<a href="mailto:bruce@tomo.co.nz">bruce@tomo.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4282347193501556581"><div lang="EN-NZ" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_4282347193501556581WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Bill<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thought I’d try Okular, <a href="https://okular.kde.org/" target="_blank">https://okular.kde.org/</a> since you mentioned it, and since it runs on Windows as well as Linux (and I use Windows).<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">From my very limited trial of one document…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It feels a bit like SumatraPDF, just with a better interface and more capabilities.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The rendering times are occasionally fast, but usually about as slow as SumatraPDF, with occasional very long white-out periods on zoom and always poor fill rendering quality. For use with Therion, if a viewer is a bit slow or poor at rendering that does not worry me much.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">My main reason for choosing a PDF viewer for use with Therion is that it allows Therion to update the pdf file while the viewer has it open. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">SumatraPDF achieves this on all but the largest of files I have Therion create.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Okular fails in this respect with a modest file, with this error – indicates an application has the output file locked.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><i>C:\Program Files\Therion\therion.exe: error -- filesystem error: cannot remove: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process [Output/LaghuElevEXT.pdf]<u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><i>writing xtherion file ... done<u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Okular has quite a few settings, so it is possible that changing some of those will remove this limitation.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Anyone with insights on this?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Bruce<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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