In a previous topic, I showed how to use a macro to kill your pdf-reader when you compile LaTeX files. Most pdf-readerss do not allow to refresh a pdf-file after compilation, so you have to close the file in the pdf-reader before compiling. My solution was to kill the pdf-reader completely. A reader of my blog wrote that you can use Sumatra, a free pdf-reader, which allows to refresh your pdf-file.

I decided to give it a try, but I wanted to keep my normal pdf-reader for all other pdf-files, because it has lots of options like commenting etc. I regularly use.

Another thing that bothered me with my pdf-reader is, that I could not jump back to Emacs (inverse-searching). Sumatra has this option.

Here are my settings in Emacs:

Sumatra will not reopen if you add the option -reuse-instance:

 Do not forget to set the inverse search command in the options of Sumatra to:

     c:\program files\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe +%l “%f”