# Sumatra PDF is a PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR reader for Windows

You can use DDE commands from TeX and LaTeX editors to use Sumatra as a pre-viewer.

## TeXnicCenter

Detailed instructions: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/116981/how-to-configure-texniccenter-2-0-with-sumatra-2013-2016-version
Short instructions:
Configure viewer in output profiles.

- Path of executable: `C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe` on (or wherever you've installed SumatraPDF)
- View project's output
  - DDE command:`[Open("%bm.pdf",0,1,1)]`
  - Server: `SUMATRA`
  - Topic: `control`
- Forward Search
  - DDE command: `[ForwardSearch("%bm.pdf","%Wc",%l,0,0,1)]`
  - Server: `SUMATRA`
  - Topic: `control`

Some people reported better results when using `%sbm` instead of `%bm` in the above command.

- Close document before running LaTeX: Do not close
- To enable the inverse search, you also have to append to the LaTeX compiler arguments: `-synctex=1`

## WinEdt, Emacs and Vim

See instructions at http://william.famille-blum.org/blog/static.php?page=static081010-000413
Emacs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AUCTeX#toc25

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