Hello all,

as you know,

<quote>
Some TeX implementations or macro packages provide the facility to au-
tomatically include so-called  `source  specials'  into  a  .dvi  file.
These  contain  the  line  number,  eventually a column number, and the
filename of the .tex source. This makes it possible to jump from a .dvi
file  to  the  corresponding  place  in  the .tex source and back (also
called `reverse search' and `forward search').
</quote>

I wonder if such functionality is possible for PDF files,
in particular, in the xpdf viewer.

Thanks for suggestions.

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Oleg Parashchenko  olpa@ http://uucode.com/
http://uucode.com/blog/  Generative Programming, XML, TeX, Scheme

There have been two such attempts that I know of.
Heiko Oberdiek's vpe:
  <http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/vpe/>
Haven't used it, but his reputation precedes him.

Jerome Laurens' pdfsync is more unofficial (not on CTAN, grrr), but I
believe it's supported in AucTeX these days:
  <http://itexmac.sourceforge.net/pdfsync.html>
(It's also got support in a couple of Mac OS X editor/frontends.)

Hope this helps,
Will

Hi Will,

thanks for the links. It's exactly what I'm looking for.