[Tex/LaTex] Configure TexnicCenter with something else than Adobe Reader X

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My Adobe decided it should be version X now, and it misbehaves in so many ways. One way is that it is impossible to get it to open a pdf document from within TexnicCenter (or I missed something…) Pressing F5 opens up the Adobe with some start menu asking me to open a recent file blablabla. But not the file I want to see. And TexnicCenter tells me the command could not be executed.

I've had it with Adobe bloatware, so I want to shift to something else. Nitro comes to mind, as I find it a decent PDF reader and editor. So I wondered if anybody had experience setting up TexnicCenter with Nitro, as I couldn't really find anything on the net. Or is there another one that is better (Sumatra is mentioned as it gives pdfsync, but again, I have no experience in this)

Thank you for your answers.

EDIT :

After some more searching around, I found that there is apparently a problem with the server name for Adobe ( see this discussion ). Still, I've had it with those censored. more censored. So any help on linking TC with either Nitro or something else is greatly appreciated

Best Answer

This This would be my TXC output profile for working with Sumatra. It allows forward and backward search and you can keep the pdf-file open while compiling. The commands are: (Check if your paths are right)

1:

C:\Programme\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe -inverse-search "\"C:\Programme\TeXnicCenter\TEXCNTR.EXE\" /ddecmd \"[goto('%f','%l')]'\""

2:

[Open("%bm.pdf",0,1,1)]

3:

[ForwardSearch("%bm.pdf","%Wc",%l,0,0,0)]

4:

[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocClose("%bm.pdf")]

You can also find tutorials for using TXC with Sumatra at TeXnicCenter Tutorials.

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