Live preview of LaTeX documents in Visual Studio Code, powered by TeXpresso. The preview updates instantly as you type, with bidirectional SyncTeX navigation between the editor and the rendered PDF. TeXpresso must be installed separately.

Features

• Live rendering — the preview updates immediately as you edit, no manual recompile needed
• Page navigation — toolbar buttons to move between pages of the compiled document
• Bidirectional SyncTeX — jump from editor position to preview page, or click in the preview to jump to the corresponding source line
• Theme color matching — optionally render the preview using your VS Code editor color theme
• WSL support — run TeXpresso inside Windows Subsystem for Linux
• Multi-file support — tracks imported files (\input) and transmits changes to TeXpresso

Page navigation

SyncTeX: editor to preview

SyncTeX: preview to editor

Theme color matching

Getting started

1. Install TeXpresso following its install guide (macOS, Fedora, Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu)
2. Install this extension from the VS Code Marketplace
3. Configure the path to the TeXpresso binary in the extension settings (texpresso.command)
4. Open a .tex file and run TeXpresso: Start Document from the Command Palette

The extension can be used alongside other LaTeX extensions such as LaTeX Workshop.