forward-inverse-searchpdfsumatrapdftexniccenterviewers
Despite having gone through
Configure TexnicCenter with something else than Adobe Reader X
and having looked at the TeXnicCenter + Sumatra Tutorial, there seems to some little changes for TeXnicCenter version 2.0 as of May 2013. How can I make TeXnicCenter 2.0 to work with Sumatra?
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.
As commented to the question the last two problems are Adobe Acrobat specific and due to the fact that Adobe Reader locks the file for editing, hence the file cannot be changed. But some other PDF readers lead by the recent Sumatra PDF can do this seamlessly. WinEdt 6, in fact, looks for Sumatra PDF and uses it as default. Conversely, SumatraPDF also recognize a limited number of editors.
Since your problems except No.1 is solved, the remaining fix/trick/shortcut is to select Build Menu -> Build and View Output instead of Build Menu -> Current View -> Build and View which assumes that you have defined a project and indicated your main file.
Their respective keyboard shortcuts are Ctrl+F5 and Ctrl+Shift+F5 and the first one is the one you might want to use.
Best Answer
Follow all the steps mentioned in the TeXnicCenter + Sumatra Tutorial, but keep in mind these few things:
In the (La)TeX tab / (La)TeX compiler section / Command line arguments to pass to the compiler bar, you should write:
-synctex=-1 -interaction=nonstopmode "%Wm"In the Viewer tab / Executable path section, what should be written is:
"C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe" -inverse-search "\"C:\Program Files\TeXnicCenter\TeXnicCenter.exe\" /ddecmd \"[goto('%f','%l')]\"". Please note:1.1 What should be written is a complete line, with spaces between line breakings (it just doesn't fit entirely here to show).
1.1.1 The path could be different in your computer (e.g., your path for the executable file could be in
"C:\Program Files (x86)\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe") or depending on your system's language could be something likeC:\Programme\...1.2 If you copy + paste from Adobe Reader from the tutorial, it is not going to work, as it seems to copy the
'as ` instead.1.3 The new executable file for TeXnicCenter 2.0 is actually named
TeXnicCenter.exe, notTEXCNTR.EXE, as it appears in the tutorial.In the Viewer tab / View project's output section, you should select
DDE commandand the command should be"%bm.pdf"(as described in the tutorial) and the server should beSUMATRA. The topic should becontrolIn the Viewer tab / Forward search section, you should select
DDE commandand the command should be[ForwardSearch("%bm.pdf","%Wc",%l,0,0,1)](as described in the tutorial) and the server should beSUMATRA. The topic should becontrolIn the Viewer tab / Close document before running (La)TeX section you should select
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