Syncing skim with LyX

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Ehud,

First of all why compile to tex and then to pdf, instead of doing this
directly?


There are however (at least) two ways of doing this:

First look in the

	Document

pulldown for

	View [PDF (LuaTeX)]

can be also

	[PDF (pdflatex)]

which is tied (in my case) to CMD-R


Then in

	Perferences -> File Handling -> File Formats -> Format:

look for

	[PDF (LuaTeX)]

and set

	Viewer: [Custom] [open -a Skim.app $$i]

click

	Apply

and perhaps do same for

	[PDF (pdflatex)]


You can also select an PDF in the finder and then enter

	CMD-I

which will open a window with lots of information and you usually would
find

	Open With: ...

showing

	Preview.

You can change that in the Pulldown to Skim for this (single) file or
for all files, so that double clicking on a PDF will open it with skim,
and the default method of opening PDFs in Skim would also change to
skim.

I do the latter, as I use skim for almost every PDF.

greetings,  el



On 2022-07-17 00:22 , Ehud Behar via lyx-users wrote:
 > I am using macOS and until now, after compiling the lyx file (to tex and
 > then) to a pdf file, the output was opened by the default pdf viewer
 > (macOS Preview, on my computer).
 >
 > I want to use the pdf viewer "Skim" to open the compiled pdf, with
 > mainly the advantage that there are no page jumps after making changes
 > to the document.
 >
 > What are the steps needed to change this in LyX in order to implement
 > skim as the pdf viewer?
 >
 > The closest thing I came across until now is appendix C in the User
 > manual, section File Handling, and section 3 in the customization
 > manual, "The Preferences dialog".
 >
 > It was a first reading and I haven't grasped everything, but at the
 > moment I am not sure if my answer is covered there at all.
 >
 > Therefore my question is if those are the places to look at all, and if
 > someone can maybe redirect me to a short guide for that?
 >