#1095 Fast live preview/ full live preview

[Anonymous]

Perhaps the biggest limitation in TexStudio is the inline preview. Apart from that I think it's close to the perfect editor. Inline preview seems to work pretty well when the document has a small preamble. However if you have a long one, with many \newcommand's etc. the live preview is extremely slow, often taking up to 5 seconds to update properly. I am using a very fast computer, and the latest version of TXS. Also things like citations and text within equation arrays are not rendered. Bakoma Tex does this really well (it's practically instantaneous and does the entire document), but is far less feature rich and constantly crashes for me.

[Tim Hoffmann]

We already use a precompiled preamble. It may well be that Bakoma TeX plays additional tricks, but I have no idea how to speed things up further. Suggestions are welcome.

Moreover, this will most likely be limited to a LaTeX -> DVI -> PNG workflow and thus may not necessarily work as well for pdflatex/xelatex/lualatex based documents.