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Subject:    [Bug 62540] cannot use "view pdf" if kile is started with tex file
From:       Rico Starke <ricostarke () gmx ! de>
Date:       2003-08-12 13:24:52
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------- Additional Comments From ricostarke@gmx.de  2003-08-12 15:24 -------
Subject: Re:  cannot use "view pdf" if kile is started with tex file as command line argument

Hi Jeroen,  
  
you asked about bug 62540 (cannot use "view pdf" if kile is started with  
tex file as command line argument):  
  
> Does the bug occur only when you open the file from the command line?  
  
Yes, if I start kile without any command line arguments and then open  
the tex document with kile's open dialogue, the PDF viewer works just 
fine and the problem does not occur. 
  
> I tried to reproduce this with the CVS version, no luck so far. Will  try 

> with version 1.5.2 to night.  
  
OK, I use kile 1.5, packaged (rpm) by the Mandrakesoft team. Maybe  
the problem is not present in more recent versions anymore.  
  
> But if the viewer is being displayed, the problem is probably not with  
> kile (to check: is the caption something like:  file:test.pdf - Kile ?).  
  
If I start kile with the filename as a command line argument, then make 
kile generate the PDF, and then activate the PDF viewer, the application 
switches to the PDF viewing mode, but the PDF display area remains 
gray. There are no page numbers listed on the left, and the application 
caption next to the program's icon in the title bar is just "kile", without 
the PDF file name (please take a look at the attached screen shot).  
When I switch back to editor mode, the caption returns to "Document: 
test.tex - Kile", just as it showed up after starting "kile test.tex". 
 
Checking the directory where test.tex resides, I can confirm that  
test.pdf exists and has been generated correctly.  
  
> Perhaps your ghostscript version is too old? Does it work if you  
> start kghostview separately and view the test.pdf ?  
  
Displaying the PDF with kghostview, gv and acroread works fine, I 
use ghostscript 7.05, packaged for Mandrake Linux 9.1 (I think 
the latest ghostscript version is 8.10).  
 
Note: While typing this mail, I just tried a FreeBSD 4.8 machine at 
work, with kile 1.5 and KDE 3.1.2 set up by our systems admi- 
nistrator. It shows the same symptoms as described in the bug 
report and above. 
Then I compiled kile 1.5.2 from source (still on the FreeBSD machi- 
ne, gcc 2.95.4), deleted all conf files and ran it without "make 
install" (don't have root privileges) - the problem seems to have 
vanished with this version. 
One thing appears strange to me: I was just curious and compiled 
kile 1.5 from source, same procedure as before with 1.5.2. Now, 
the bug has vanished with 1.5, too! 
Thus, it may be some kind of packaging problem (KDE prefix or 
something), not related to kile itself ?! Or could it be a compiler 
problem? 
  
Regards,  
  
  Rico  



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