So in this lesson, we will learn how to change the pdfviewer in WinEdt.
So, we are using the WinEDt editor for Latex.
Let me show the eroor which I am getting now.
So, this is our simple document which we have already used, nothing special, just begin
document, one sentence and end document so I want to compile this, It shows me the document
but then it show this error �Cannot Open DDE Link� and this is a bug.
And this error has taken a lot of my time and research then I found the fix for this,
so in similar manner something like unable to refresh the PDF file or �Unable to open
DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange Link) or Unable the generate the PDF without any error.
So sometimes it appens, there is no error but you can�t get any PDF.
It�s not showing any pdf, no output.
Here you can have error which is annoying and frustrating and you want to just change
the pdf viewer so we a lot of options, so for example, I just mentioned three of them
One is the Adobe Reader which is of course not working for some reason suppose, then
we have Sumatra and Sumatra works very well with WinEdt.
It is very compatible and it aligns very well with WinEdt.
Then we have Foxit and Foxit is also good and very popular PDF Viewer, so we can get
any of these and install it first and then we can change it in our editor.
So, I�ll show you how to do that.
You can have a look at Sumatra pdf.
So, for example let�s say we wanna install this.
Here is the installer, 32 bit and 64 bit.
So, depending on your computer, you can download this.
I have already downloaded this in my folder.
So, I�ll just click on this.
Ins Sumatra and you can start it.
So you can see now its running, So now, how to change it.
So, you have to go inside WinEdt.
Then Options>> execution mode and Acrobat and this is the executable file for Acrobat
Reader You just have to point this to the executable file of Sumatra PDF, just click
on this icon and you go above this folder because this is the folder where this executable
resides, see Acrobat reader, so you have to go up until you get Program Files and in program
Files, you will get a folder name Sumatra PDF which we have just installed.
Sumatra PDF, just click on this folder, so this is the executable, you click on this
and open, so this will come here.
Instead of Adobe Reader, WinEdt will now open Sumatra PDF as a PDF viewer, So in order to
change the BIN folder, you can just select Autodetect and it will change when one time,
it will run, it will change the bin folder for this, So just apply this setting OK and
now if we compile again, �pdftexify�, so this is your document is in Sumatra PDF,
So now you are using Sumatra PDF as a PDF viewer.Once you have run this once or twice
then you can double check by coming into options >> executimode and you will see that, it has
changed the PDF bin folder to Sumatra PDF.
So in this way, you can change the pdfviewer, So its very simple, so once again, it�s
very simple, you just have to go in options >> execution mode >> Acrobat and this is the
executable which is pointing to Sumatra now but before it was pointing to Acrobat Reader.
When you change the location of the executable, , you will just click �Autodetect� and
it will change the location of the bin folder, So this is how we change the pdf viewer in
our Latex editor.