When syncing from editor to PDF, a light blue box will flash over the matching text, and when syncing PDF to editor, the cursor position will be set as closely as possible, often to the character. In either of the two cases below, the other pane will be synchronised as precisely as possible. One-off syncing takes you from a particular Editor location to its corresponding location in PDF, or vice versa. We are continually improving the matching system and Texpad users will continue to see improvements as a result over time.Īlso note that, SyncTeX is not compatible with all LaTeX document classes Beamer, for example, often causes trouble. On macOS, MacTeX has had SyncTeX built in since 2008 so it is overwhelmingly likely that your distribution supports SyncTeX.Īs Texpad relies on the sync data produced by the underlying typesetter and ultimately the included packages themselves, it may not always be possible to match the two sides perfectly. Locally, on macOS or Windows, if your TeX distribution supports SyncTeX, Texpad will typeset the project with SyncTeX option automatically on to enable the sync. The cloud typesetters are set up to generate and return from the cloud server the corresponding. synctex.gz extension in the same folder as the root file. TexpadTeX does not write this data to the disk in order to save time and resources.įor external typesetters, such as TeXLive on macOS and our cloud typesetters on iOS, this information is stored as an intermediate file with a. It generates the information necessary to convert a position in the typeset PDF with a position in the editor source.įor Texpad’s live typesetter TexpadTeX, this data is a by-product of the typeset process and is made available to the sync process when needed. SyncTeX is a technology built into recent TeX typesetters. Texpad relies on the data generated by a tool called SyncTeX supplied by the underlying typesetter to sync between he PDF and the LaTeX source. There are two ways you may choose to do so, a a one-off sync and a continuous scroll lock.
Texpad allows you to synchronise your LaTeX source with the output PDF.