I am using
- Cursor 0.44.11
- macOS Sequoia 15.2
- LaTeX Workshop v10.7.5
- LaTeX Utilities v0.4.14
I recently migrated from VS Code/CoPilot to Cursor. This problem is unique to Cursor as I haven’t encountered it in VS Code.
When viewing large PDFs of LaTeX documents (40-60 pages), the entire document isn’t loaded into the viewer. This causes erratic scrollbar and synctex behavior, e.g., I have to repeatedly grab and drag the scrollbar to get to the top of the document, as though it’s newly discovering the pages above and forgetting the pages below.
This causes problems with synctex, causing it to jump to random pages or to jump down a page every time a change is saved to the document, as it can’t actually identify the real point in the document that needs to be viewed.
I have tried multiple viewer settings, including tab and browser. Both have the same problem.
I am currently opening the files with a separate PDF Viewer extension which properly loads the entire file, but doesn’t support synctex.