LaTeX forum ⇒ Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ Missing highlighted area in pdf view after “quick build" Topic is solved

[unpix]

One of the greatest things on TeXmaker is that it highlights the area (red rectangle) in the pdf document after running some compilation command. It highlights the block or paragraph or equation, in which the cursor in the tex file is currently located. This is very efficient in correcting some minor misprints. I like this feature the most. Actually, I use TeXmaker because of it.
But, suddenly it doesn't work. I don't know why. I tried to reinstall it, but it was useless. Does anybody know where the problem is? I use the Windows-version of TeXmaker.

[unpix]

Well, the problem is solved. It was just that the command pdflatex was launch without the switch -syntex.

[Kaspolesen]

Hi
I encountered the same problem and this post was the only one I could find about it.
But I don't completely understand how you fixed it. Did you write something in the pdflatex command line?
I am using texmaker and completely new

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Kaspolesen,

welcome to the forum!

The option is called -synctex=1 (there's a typo on the post above). It's a command line option, but you can configure it in your editor settings. Go to "Configure TeXmaker" in the main menu, take a look at those settings and make the same for pdfLaTeX in your editor:

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Stefan

[Supercheese]

The problem is that the path of your work folders must not contain spaces or special characters. I had the same problem, but I also had the correct settings explained above. Blanck spaces be damned!!!! Hope it helps

[paulbv]

Hello,

I have the same problem since I have updated the texmaker to version 5.0.2.
My pdflatex option is like this:
"/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex" -synctex=1 --shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex
It is on MacOS but it should not count.
Is there any other option that I need to set?
Paul

[RobBla]

I had the same issue on Mac. I used Stefan Kottwitz's setting but it was still not working.
Solved it by also adding -synctex=1 to the LaTeX command:

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"latex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex