Wow Stacho, that's cool! It works with some limitations (in version 5.2.5) in Windows XP, at least most of the time. It tends to close all open pdf files however and in this case can cause the odd "error -- cp exit code -- 1" with more complicated thconfig files that create two maps and insert one into the other. My mistake was looking for something previewed in Xtherion. It works by opening and closing the output pdf document in Acrobat Reader, (as you pointed out) and avoids having to manually open and close the pdf document each time you compile to avoid the dreaded "error -- cp exit code -- 1". One less thing to think about :) It seems to work if I paste in the full path and file name of the pdf document that I want to display, (a bit tedious) as well as if I type in a relative path from the location of the thconfig file (much easier). Is this how it is meant to be? It means you can 'set and forget' the output file to be viewed at the start of each editing session, and for the duration of that editing session Acrobat will always be displaying the most current version of the file. Brilliant! I am fairly happy with it as it is. Allowing it to work while multiple pdf documents are open would be nice, but not a high priority if it is tedious to implement. If I was being greedy I'd ask for a dropdown box in the preview field that remembered the last 10 output files used! Have a nice day Bruce -----Original Message----- From: therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Stacho Mudrak Sent: Saturday, 24 January 2009 2:50 a.m. To: List for Therion users Subject: Re: [Therion] Compiler Preview Pane Well, you should put in this field the name of PDF file and it should be displayed after compilation in Adobe Acrobat Viewer. Before compilation, it tries to close file open in acrobat reader and then it tries to reopen it. Unfortunatelly, it is very difficult to control Acrobat Reader in Win32 environment, and therefore it probably does not work. I will leave this box only for linux version probably. Regards, S. On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Bruce Mutton <bruce.mutton@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
In the XTherion Compiler window there is a Preview pane (bottom right) that is looking for a path to Acrobat Reader or to a pdf file.
How does this work and what should it preview? My efforts generally come up with nothing at all, and once I think I got an error from Acrobat complaining about a corrupt file. May or may not have been related to my efforts with XTherion.
Bruce