For viewing PDFs I invariably use Apple’s Preview. In contrast with Adobe Reader which is painfully slow to load, Preview is both fast and convenient. Nevertheless, I wanted something more. First of all, Preview doesn’t autoupdate. So if you regenerate a PDF with pdflatex, say, your changes won’t appear in Preview. Largely for this reason, I have been using TeXniscope as my LaTeX previewer. But this too has limitations. No search functionality, no full screen mode, and development has apparently halted. There is, however, a good alternative—PDFView. Fast, lightweight, and open source, PDFView has many of the features that I am looking for:
- searchable
- full screen mode
- supports pdfsync
- autoupdates
- and more besides …
So if you are in the market for a PDF reader, check out PDFView—it just may well become your default PDF reader on the Mac.
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