[Tex/LaTex] Finding the corresponding tex file/line from pdf

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I am working on a pretty big latex project (a book) and I'd like to be able to quickly find the corresponding .tex file and line number, when having the resulting PDF in front of me.

Being open-source, people come with "content fixes", yet they tell me things about the content. I am able to find it rapidly in the PDF, but it's harder to find where in the .tex source the paragraph I'm interested in is.

The reported lines in the pdf do not need to be precise, and for each and every line in the source. An orientative line number per paragraph would suffice.

Are there any solutions to this?

Best Answer

Which system do you use? I have MikTeX 2.9, Windows 7 and the editor TeXnicCenter 2.0 Alpha. I configured TeXnicCenter to use SumatraPDF instead of Adobe Reader. On the Sourceforge project site of TeXnicCenter are tutorials available in English, French and German, how to do this, see in http://sourceforge.net/projects/texniccenter/files/Tutorials/

TeXnicCenter has a nice feature to administrate your TeX project for you. In this combination of programs I can click in SumatraPDF into the displayed pdf file and TeXnicCenter shows me the tex code in the corresponding tex file and vice versa.

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