Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ Problem opening PDF files from TexMaker

[joaomiguel]

Hi.

I have installed MikTex and TexMaker, and everything is running smoothly except when I Quickbuild or press F7 to View PDF, when TexMaker tells me "There was an error opening this document. This file cannot be found."
I checked the path for Adobe Reader, it's OK. But it still doesn't work. I mean the pdf file is there, looking great, and i can open it, but not from TexMaker. Does anyone have any clue how to solve this?

Thank you!

[joaomiguel]

I forgot to say that I have also tried with Foxit Reader, for example, and it still says that he cannot open the file...

[localghost]

Make sure that the compilation process is running properly. Check the log file for warnings or error messages. On the screenshot I can see an error message at the bottom of the TeXmaker window (Messages / Log File) which is partly covered by other windows.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[fry]

In case if someone still facing this problem.
It appears at a time when you have another pdf file opned with acrobat. To solve this you have to start separate instance of acrobat. There is command line option:

/n Launch a separate instance of the Acrobat application, even if one is currently open.

In "pdf viewer" text field you should have:
"C:/Program Files/Adobe/Reader 8.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe" /n %.pdf

[T3.]

This issue has been already disscussed. For a possible workaround see this thread.

Cheers,

Tomek