Bug 389504

Summary:	Preview tool for pdf->png preview in bottom bar is limited to PDFLatex
Product:	[Applications] kile	Reporter:	Simone Gaiarin <simgunz>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Michel Ludwig <michel.ludwig>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.9.93
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Manjaro
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Simone Gaiarin 2018-01-27 11:50:28 UTC

A combobox to select the compilation tool for the case pdf->png should be added to let the user select other tools like Xelatex, Luatex

Changing line 155 of previewwidget.cpp to:

tasklist = "PreviewXeLaTeX,,,,,png";

compiles correctly with xelatex (though sometimes the image is not displayed, but this is another bug)

Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2022-11-15 22:58:31 UTC

Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!

Comment 2 Simone Gaiarin 2022-11-23 06:55:10 UTC

Selecting "Build > Quick Preview > Selection or Environment" the preview is still generated with PDFLatex. It is not possible to choose the compiler from the UI.