Hi all,

some interesting developments concerning the WinEdt/PDF viewer interface
have been going on recently:

1) a new, free PDF viewer has been announced, the Sumatra PDF viewer,
which has some major advantages over Adobe Reader:
* it does not lock the file
* it refreshes automatically
* it allows *inverse* search, ie. the possibility to jump from a
page in the viewer to the corresponding location in WinEdt
(just like yap does).
It's lean, hence some advanced PDF features (eg., layers) won't work.
It's new, so some minor glitches are to be expected (eg., it doesn't
remember the last location and size of the window).

Sumatra can be downloaded here:
<http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/>.

You don't have to make this viewer the default application for PDF files
in order to use it with WinEdt. All you need to do is to open
Options|Execution Modes|Acrobat, and choose Sumatra as the "PDF Viewer
Executable".

If you compile the document with the pdfsync package, you can then
double-click in the PDF viewer to jump to the corresponding line in
WinEdt. And of course, you can also jump from WinEdt to the respective
page in Sumatra (but read on...)


2) pdftex will soon incorporate the facilities from the pdfsync package,
thus rendering this package superfluous plus making the mechanism more
stable.

For those of you who are using a TeX Live based system and are able to
compile pdftex, a release candidate of version 1.40.8 is available at
<http://sarovar.org/frs/?group_id=106&release_id=812>. For everybody
else, it will be included in the upcoming TeX Live 2008 (to be expected
"soon"), and of course also in MiKTeX in the near future.

The command line switch to enable synchronization is: "--synctex=-1"
(that's "minus one"), which you can set in the Execution Modes interface.


I have updated the relevant WinEdt scripts to work with Sumatra and with
the synctex switch: at <http://www.winedt.org/temp/>, you can download
"Acrobat OpenDoc-Find.edt" and "Acrobat OpenDoc.edt", which both have to
be saved in the local WinEdt directory %b\Exec.


Happy WinEdt'ing!
--
Robert