Texmaker Sumatrapdf Forward And Inverse Search

Dr. Aris Thorne

-Apr 6, 2026, 7:05 PM

texmaker sumatrapdf forward and inverse search

I just made a doc describing how to setup Texmaker and SumatraPDF with forward and inverse search, but fully portable which is bit tricky. Link to the how-to https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nnfzCoZcQCSPntx07sozfeeihMd0ZqreIInQNfrIPsE/edit (without redirect: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nnfzCoZcQCSPntx07sozfeeihMd0ZqreIInQNfrIPsE/edit+) or see below: 1. Configuring Texmaker to use SumatraPDF as external PDF viewer with forward search Open your portable Texmaker and set path to external viewer as follows:./SumatraPDF/SumatraPDF.exe %.pdf -reuse-instance -forward-search %.tex @ Note that path to SumatraPDF.exe is relative to Texmaker executable and you may need to edit this path to match your folder structure. 2.

Configuring inverse search in SumatraPDF By default SumatraPDF does not allow to configure inverse search via GUI. Run once the following command: SumatraPDF.exe -inverse-search "texmaker.exe %f -line %l" You should not change the path to texmaker.exe file, even if you have different folder structure than I had. 3. Create startup batch file Due to some limitations in SumatraPDF we have to start Texmaker with following batch file everytime we want to use SumatraPDF as external viewer.

Place the following commands in texmaker-portable.bat and save this file to the same folder as Texmaker.exe. Also note that you can pass any parameter to texmaker-portable.bat that you could pass to texmaker.exe itself. @echo off set PATH=%~dp0;%PATH% start /D "%~dp0" texmaker.exe %* 4.

Run texmaker-portable.bat and test the settings Troubleshooting - make sure you are using -synctex=1 or -synctex=-1 parameter while formatting a tex file - the tex file should not contain space in its name (Texmaker and SumatraPDF handles spaces just fine, but SyncTeX file may not be created even with -synctex=1 parameter) - make sure you started Texmaker with the batch file and SumatraPDF via Texmaker (this chain is mandatory)

Di berbagai hasil pencarian, pembahasan mengenai texmaker sumatrapdf forward and inverse search sering bergerak pada poin-poin seperti Texmakerhas a Built-in pdf viewer which supports synctexforward/inversesearchout of the box. This Built-in viewer can be displayed embedded or in a separate window, external viewers always have a separate window. As I have two screens, I am using the two-window layout.

Now I would like to switch toSumatraPDFas external viewer, but cannot find how to configureTexmakerto getForward; For theinversesearch, go toSumatraPDF> Settings > Options and enter the command below in theinversesearchbox with your own path fortexmaker.exe: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Texmaker\texmaker.exe" "%f" -line %l Note: I have encountered documents whereinversesearchdidn't jump to the proper line in the source; SettingforwardsearchandinversesearchinSumatraPDFfor LaTeX-Workshop 29 Jan 2025 To set upforwardandinversesearchinSumatraPDFusing LaTeX Workshop extention in Visual Studio Code, follow these steps: ConfigureSumatraPDFOne of the following two methods can be used: Method 1 1.1. OpenSumatraPDF. 1.2.

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