[Tex/LaTex] Texmaker generated pdf file not showing the position of cursor

Question

I am compiling LaTeX files with Texmaker on Ubuntu 12.04 system.

When I run pdflatex and then view the pdf file (internal), it does not show me the exact place where I am editing on Texmaker i.e. the generated pdf file does not show me the position of the cursor.

But some days before it was working fine. I don't know what causes this problem.

I already tried uninstalling and then reinstalling, I did update and upgrade too. But the problem still persists.

Answer 1

Synchronization between source TeX files and the resulting dvi or pdf file is done with synctex support. You must add the -synctex=1 option to the pdflatex command to enable synctex and thereby generating fileName.synctex.gz file which stores the linkages between source and pdf. synctex does not like special characters, follow best practices for file names.