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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Setting up Synctex for Sumatra PDF and TexnicCenter

Everytime I need this information I have to search for it on forums, then filter out the broken solutions in order to find out the corect one. So, I'm posting it here to have it for future reference:
  1. Install & setup SumatraPDF and Texniccenter (including the output profiles of TexnicCenter).
  2. Open the Output profiles window (Alt+F7).
  3. Select the Latex => PDF output profile.
  4. In the Latex section, add -synctex=-1 at the end of Command line arguments to pass to the compiler textbox (leave a space between this and the previous arguments).
  5. In the Viewer section, set the Path of executable textbox to C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe -inverse-search "\"c:\Program Files\TeXnicCenter\TEXCNTR.EXE\" /ddecmd \"[goto('%f','%l')]\"". This will start SumatraPDF as the PDF viewer and will provide it with the program to run whenever a back search is performed.
  6. Still in the Viewer section, set for View project's output and Forward search the following options: Enable DDE Command and set Command to [ForwardSearch("%bm.pdf","%Wc",%l,0)], Server to SUMATRA, and Topic to Control. This will allow forward search to work.
Update: Step 5 refers to an older version of TeXnicCenter installed on Windows XP. Read the comments to find out the updated folder (for Windows 7) and file name (latest TexnicCenter).
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9 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 22, 2010 at 7:45 PM

    Thank you very much, this works!

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  2. Jacek GajekJuly 2, 2011 at 1:16 PM

    Finally found a working solution! You may want to adnotate that "if you have an x64 operating system, then you have enter path of exe:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe -inverse-search "\"C:\Program Files (x86)\TeXnicCenter\TEXCNTR.EXE\" /ddecmd \"[goto('%f','%l')]\""

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  3. AndreaJanuary 24, 2012 at 10:45 PM

    Thanks, this ended my search!

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  4. UnknownJanuary 12, 2013 at 5:57 PM

    Exellent, thank you.
    A little addition: The name of the TeXnicCenter executable has been changed to TeXnicCenter.exe, so the path would be:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe -inverse-search "\"C:\Program Files (x86)\TeXnicCenter\TeXnicCenter.exe\" /ddecmd \"[goto('%f','%l')]\""

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  5. sakshiApril 16, 2013 at 10:03 PM

    this doesn't work having same problem as by other sites [Forward Search("%bm.pdf","%Wc",%l,0,0,1)] Cannot execute the command. Please reply soon.

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  6. Pranav MundadaJune 12, 2013 at 12:16 AM

    For xelatex=>pdf on texniccenter what settings need to be made for sumatra?

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  7. UnknownNovember 19, 2013 at 3:11 PM

    Brilliant! :)

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  8. UnknownFebruary 23, 2014 at 6:29 PM

    Xelatex=>pdf on texniccenter to forward and reverse search setting help pleease

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