WinEdit: Cannot Jump from PDF to LaTex source?

You may have already known about the convenient feature of WinEdit LaTex environment that allows you to jump from the generated PDF line, when clicking that line, back to the corresponding tex source line in the WinEdit editor window. This is immensely helpful and conducive to efficient Tex editing and revising. 

However, somehow you may find that the feature suddenly fails to work. That happens to me recently, making a lot of headaches when fiddling with how to fix it and bring the nice feature back to work. 

Regardless of how other online posts complicated this solution, here is the quick steps:

1. Download Sumatra PDF reader and install it (to avoid unnecessary trouble, just install it to the default folder, for instance 'C:\Program Files (x86)").

2. Open your WinEdit and get into 'Options' (from the main menu) -> 'Execution Modes'

3. In 'PDF Viewer' tab, set Sumatra PDF reader (the executable SumatraPDF.exe) as the 'PDF Viewer Executable'; leave 'Use --synctex switch when --src is enabled' unchecked; fill '--synctex=1' in SyncTex switch box

4. Move to the 'Console Applications' tab, choose 'PDFTexify' in the navigation menu on the left-hand side, fill '--pdf --tex-option=--synctex=-1' in the 'Switches' box.

5. Ctrl+Shift+'P' (or choose 'PDFTexify' from the 'Tex'->'PDF' menu items) to build your PDF; save settings and get back to your editing environment.

6. Now try to double click a line in the PDF, the beautiful functionality should play like a charm!

Solve PDF font-embedding really quick

To make your PDF files easy to view by others who may have a different font environment from where you generated the PDFs, you are usually in want of embedding all fonts in the files. In fact, many of the professional publishing agencies, such as the Conference Publishing System (CPS) of IEEE or ACM, have set mandatory requirements in that regard on the paper authors preparing the camera-ready versions.

This is the most straightforward recipe:

1. Open you problematic PDF in any application that provides a capability of printing (such as Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Pro).

2. Go to 'print' page and choose 'Acrobat PDF' as the printer.

3. Get into "properties" of the printer.

4. In the 'Adobe PDF Setting' tab, get into 'edit' next to the 'Default Settings' item.

5. Get into 'Fonts' from the navigation menu. 

6. Choose the 'Embed all fonts' checkbox. 

7. Select 'All' items in the 'Never Embed' listbox and Remove all of them.

8. Save the settings (a new setting will be created which can be used next time upon the same need) and go back to the 'print' page. 

9. Print your PDF into another PDF, where all fonts are now embedded.

10. Problem should be solved already. 

* To check if all fonts have been embedded: 

In Acrobat Reader/Pro, go to 'properties' from the 'File' menu, look into the 'Font' tab, 

for each successfully embedded font, there should be something like '(Embedded subset)'.