Re: Interactive PDF Link to Notes in Preview

[Zone Dremik]

Click-to-View was such a valuable feature. I could click on notes, chord 
symbols or lyrics, and the URI link would open the correct .ly file and 
highlight the exact text-code. (My oldest files date from 2009. I've been 
enjoying this feature a long time, and really miss it.)

This was with Mac OS 10.8.6 (Mountain Lion). I upgraded last month to OS 11 (El 
Capitan)

I would be interested to know how other users make corrections to the scores 
they have typeset. I am not enjoying the need to read through all the text to 
fix wrong notes and typos. (I have many!)

Switching to Skim or another PDF viewer is a logical suggestion. I would 
appreciate hearing from any users who who can verify whether the URIs properly. 
I suspect Apple is now suppressing any links and scripts embedded in PDFs for 
security reasons.


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On Sat, 7/7/18, Mats Behre <address@hidden> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Interactive PDF Link to Notes in Preview
 To: "Zone Dremik" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
 Date: Saturday, July 7, 2018, 4:26 AM
 
 On 2018-07-03 18:47, Zone Dremik
 wrote:
 > Hello,
 > After a recent
 upgrade to my computer, the function that links music notes
 (and lyrics) in the PDF viewer, to the text in the Lilypond
 files, has stopped working.
 >
 > The ability to click on notes and lyrics
 in the preview screen, and have the exact point highlighted
 in the corresponding Lilypond file was so enormously useful,
 that the loss of this function has become a great barrier to
 efficient use of the program.
 >
 > I am using Lilypond Version 2.18.2-1
 > Apple Macintosh System 10.11.6
 > Apple Preview Version 8.1 (877.7)
 I don't think I have ever managed to get
 this to work with Preview, and my first attempt was way
 before Sierra, so I'm not sure it has ever worked.
 (10.11 is El Capitan, by the way ...)
 I have
 used Acrobat Reader instead, but Preview updates the page
 when you rebuild, with Acrobat doesn't, so it's not
 ideal. Others have mentioned Skim, perhaps that's
 something to take a look at.
 
 /mb