Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 11/25/21 8:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> No matter what I've tried, Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon displays
> the PDF version of the document only in qpdfview. I changed
> tools=>preferences=>output=>general=>PDF Command to
> mupdf "$$o#src:$$f:$$n:0"
> and yet still, the eyeballs and Ctrl+R display in qpdfview.
>
> Why this matters is, alone in all my PDF viewers, qpdfview displays
> links with annoying boxes around them, even though I did:
>
> \usepackage{hyperref }%          Colored, clickable URLs
> \hypersetup{
>    hidelinks = true,
>    colorlinks   = true, %Colours links instead of ugly boxes
>    urlcolor     = linkcolor, %Colour for external hyperlinks
>    linkcolor    = linkcolor, %Colour of internal links
>    citecolor   = green %Colour of citations
> }
>
> So, how does one set the viewer when presses Ctrl+R or clicks the
> eyeballs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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Try Tools > Preferences... > File Handling > File Format, select in the 
"Format:" box the way you compile to PDF (so "PDF (pdflatex)" for me, 
since I'm old fashioned), then select your preferred PDF viewer in the 
"Viewer:" menu and click OK. If your preferred viewer is not there, 
select "Custom" and put the command to run the viewer in the box 
alongside the menu.