Enhancement: Access to grid view, while viewer is embedded.

[kbauer]

The builtin pdf viewer has rather powerful viewing features, such as a grid view, that isn't even provided to such a degree by fullfledged standalone viewers. This is particularly useful for Beamer, where having an overview over tens of slides becomes cumbersome in other viewers, that at best allow a two-paged view.

Sadly, this functionality is bound to using the "windowed" mode of the internal viewer, which also changes the interaction between viewer and editor significantly.

• In windowed mode, focus switches from editor to viewer, once "build&view" is finished.
• Fullscreen mode doesn't work with multiple windows.

Desired behaviour

Access to grid view in the embedded viewer.

Environment

• TeXstudio: 2.12.8
• Qt: Using Qt Version 5.8.0, compiled with Qt 5.8.0 R
• OS: Windows 10 (Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.492])
• TeX distribution: MikTeX

[thatlittleboy]

Regarding the first point, you can try setting under Configure TeXstudio -> Build:

PDF Viewer: txs:///view-pdf-internal --windowed --no-focus

so focus stays on the editor after compilation / when view-pdf is called. (though I know that's not the main issue at hand; just pointing out that the first point can be worked-around)