[Tex/LaTex] Problem with Preview using TeXlipse in Mac OS Snow Leopard

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I basically configured everything as indicated in this website but I cannot get to preview my document.

When I click on Latex > Preview Document I get an error message indicating:

Launching preview document in yap' has encountered a problem. Could
not start previewer yap. Please make sure you have entered the
correct path and filename in the viewer preferences

Details are:

Could not start previewer 'yap'. Please make sure you have entered the
correct path and filename in the viewer preferences. Cannot run
program "" (in directory "/Users/ohd/Documents/workspace/Seminar"):
error=2, No such file or directory

This is one of the preview programs listed on the Viewer Settings, but I have acroread in the 1st place.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

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/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal- I believe "yap" (short for "yet another previewer", right?) is a dvi file previewer for Windows machines. You should check out the section "Using preview to source linking on Mac OS X" of the online manual for TeXlipse (at bottom of http://texlipse.sourceforge.net/manual/build.html) for information on using MacOSX's own Preview program or Adobe's acroread.

Addendum: I just checked out the installation instructions on the website you mention, and they seem to be 2 to 3 years out of date. For instance, instead of using the path /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin, as suggested in the instructions, you'll want to use /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-x86_64-darwin -- assuming you've loaded the latest version of TeXLive.

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