[Tex/LaTex] Using SyncTeX with Adobe Acrobat Reader

acrobatforward-inverse-search

The font rendering quality of Adobe Acrobat Reader is far superior to that of other PDF viewers. It also supports scripting via JavaScript. The debugger for JavaScript can apparently be enabled in the (free) Reader product by editing the registry.

Laurens, developer of SyncTeX, claims that the command line SyncTeX tool could in principle be used to perform direct and inverse search on a PDF open in Acrobat reader

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Does anyone know of a Latex IDE on any platform that has attempted to connect the IDE's text editor to Acrobat Reader by using the SyncTex commandline tool as described in Laurens' article above?

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This is a rather 'hopeful' reading of the article by Jérôme Laurens. He points out that Adobe Reader does not and will not have SyncTeX built in, and uses this as a led-in to why a command line SyncTeX interface is useful. I'd take it as not more than a throw-away line to set context. Moreover, as this would at best work for forward search but not allow inverse search (PDF to .tex), it would not be that useful anyway.

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Adobe is not designed to work with winedt. Adding to the pain, the DDE controls of Adobe keep changing with its versions. For more details you may refer to winedt mailing list.

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