diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index dc8c743..5f494e6 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ help:
 	@echo ""  ;
 	@echo "      latex-edit: edit main.tex "  ;
 	@echo ""  ;
+	@echo "      latex-view: view main.pdf "  ;
+	@echo ""  ;
 	@echo "      project-start: start service "  ;
 	@echo ""  ;
 	@echo "      project-stop: shutdown service"  ;
@@ -56,6 +58,9 @@ latex-edit:
 latex-build:
 	@cd xelatex;  ./bin/make-clean-ant-compile.sh 2>/dev/null ; true
 
+latex-view:
+	@cd xelatex;  ./bin/latex-view.sh 2>/dev/null ; true
+
 latex-bib:
 	@cd xelatex;  ./bin/make-bib.sh 2>/dev/null ; true
 
diff --git a/xelatex/bin/latex-view.sh b/xelatex/bin/latex-view.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8aaa12a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xelatex/bin/latex-view.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#/bin/bash
+
+SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
+while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symlink
+  TARGET="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
+  if [[ $TARGET == /* ]]; then
+    #echo "SOURCE '$SOURCE' is an absolute symlink to '$TARGET'"
+    SOURCE="$TARGET"
+  else
+    DIR="$( dirname "$SOURCE" )"
+    #echo "SOURCE '$SOURCE' is a relative symlink to '$TARGET' (relative to '$DIR')"
+    SOURCE="$DIR/$TARGET" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
+  fi
+done
+
+SRPATH="$( dirname "$SOURCE" )"
+SFPATH="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
+if [ "$SFPATH" != "$SRPATH" ]; then
+  RDIR=$SRPATH    # relativ path directory
+fi
+
+cwdir=$PWD
+wdir=$SFPATH
+
+if [ "$cwdir" != "$wdir" ]; then
+        cd $wdir
+fi
+
+echo $cwdir
+echo $wdir
+
+docker run -it --rm --net=host --env="DISPLAY" --volume="$HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority:rw" -v $cwdir/docs:/documents silvavlis/okular /documents/main.pdf