Include PDF viewer

[fiee]

Feature Request

Please include an usable PDF viewer to get an UX similar to TeXstudio (but better).

Setting up an external viewer and get it working with SyncTeX is very difficult. TeXlipse’s default viewer iTeXmac was only available for OSX and isn’t any more (i.e. had its latest release in 2007).

There is TeXlipse’s companion project PDF4Eclipse that did the job well, but that is also outdated and nonfunctional. There’s a clone that’s mostly working: https://github.com/lenny/Pdf4Eclipse

It would make sense to include this in TeXlipse and also update it. (I know you got no ressources...)

What is the current behavior?

TeXlipse calls a configurable external viewer (keep this option!). Default, regardless of platform, is iTeXmac (see above).

What is the expected or desired behavior?

Integrated PDF viewer with SyncTeX.

Please provide use cases for changing the current behavior:

Better user experience in IDE spirit.

[hgvanpariya]

@turesheim : I wanted to make this changes ...
I'm thinking to use ICEPdf

do you have any suggestions for PDF viewer?
We need to write a new plugin for PDFviewer, as all exiting eclipse PDF plugins are mostly associated with TeX editor.

[fiee]

Sounds good, thank you for looking into this! I guess a PDF viewer makes sense for other use(r)s of Eclipse outside of TeX.

BTW the Pdf4Eclipse fork stopped working with 2021 releases of Eclipse.

[hgvanpariya]

@fiee , @turesheim : I've added PDF viewer feature. Will you please validate once ?

[fiee]

How can I install it? The nightlies site stopped in 2021-09, and the marketplace has only 2.0.3