Questions tagged [pdf-tools]
For questions about using the pdf-tools package, which provides tools for viewing and annotating pdf files in Emacs
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AucTex and PDF Tools Not Working
For the past few days I have been trying to get Emacs to update and display my PDF when I press C-c C-a, once saved. I save with C-x C-s.
But everything I have tried fails, including every other ...
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Easily open PDF attachments from gnus with pdf-tools?
I seem to remember that I used to be able to press RET on a PDF attachment button in a Gnus article and have it open with pdf-tools. It's not working now, when I press RET I get prompted to save the ...
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Horizontal Scrolling and pinch to zoom on PDF tools
I'm attempting to get horizontal scrolling and pinch-to-zoom working for Pdf-Tools. I'm a medical researcher who uses a lot of PDFs and have fallen in love with org-mode, now trying to move more ...
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run pdf-tools and evince simultaneously with auctex
Is it possible to run pdf-tools and evince simultaneously with auctex, with forward search? That is, if I press C-click on the latex, the forward search should jump to the corresponding pdfs in both ...
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pdf-tools view bottom of one page and top of another page simulatenously
Does pdf-tools have scrolling where I can view the bottom half of one pdf page and the top of the next page? Right now, my installation simply jumps to the next page and I cannot view two pages ...
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hand draw arrow in pdf-tools
I like using pdf-tools to annotate a pdf file. Is there a way of hand-drawing an arrow (by dragging the mouse) in pdf-tools? It would help a lot in annotating pdf files. Even a template arrow (instead ...
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auctex and pdf-tools reverse search change keybinding
Inverse search from pdf-tools to auctex uses Ctrl-click on the pdf file to go to the corresponding part of latex file. Is it possible to also assign Alt-click to do inverse search? I am using ubuntu ...
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auctex pdf-tools split buffers in separate frames
This is an extension of my previous question auctex and pdf-tools in 2 separate frames which was nicely answered by Tobias. I use auctex in one frame and pdftools in another frame. Forward and inverse ...
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auctex and pdf-tools in 2 separate frames for dual monitor setup
For auctex with pdftools it is convenient for me (eyesight problems) to have the emacs latex frame on my laptop close to my eyes, and the corresponding pdf (in pdftools) on a separate frame on the ...
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pdf-tools auctex question with split buffers
I run auctex with the latex source on the left half buffer and corresponding pdf on the right half (using C-x 3 to split the buffer). I then split the left half buffer into 2 so as two work on ...
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Make pdf-tools highlight persist after searching
Is it possible to make the highlight of searched terms persist after pressing RET? I had liked very much the behavior of zathura in this aspect.
My question is :
Can pdf-tools be tweaked to have the ...
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pdf-tools Emacs with auctex
I have setup Emacs pdf-tools with auctex on ubuntu and the forward and reverse search work fine. But in the forward search (latex file to corresponding position in pdf document), it is difficult to ...
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Hide empty margins in pdf
My screen is a bit small and dividing it in two vertically to see a pdf while editing it leaves a lot to be desired. However, if pdf-tools or pdf-view mode had the option to hide a % of the empty ...
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pdf-tools asking to be rebuilt when emacs is started
My init.el file includes the line (pdf-tools-install)
Recently whenever I open emacs I get the message
"Need to (re)build the epdfinfo program, do it now" (y or n)
which is rather annoying.
I can't ...
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select coding system if annotating with pdftools
so here I am happily annotating pdfs with pdftools and every now and then, the modeline pops up, urging me to select the coding system (default raw text). I already set in my init file
(setq utf-...
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Page thumbnails for pdf-tools?
Q: is there an image-dired analog to make thumbnails in pdf-tools?
image-dired provides
facilities to browse images in a directory by thumbnail. Is there
analogous functionality
for pdf-tools?
The ...
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How to show page number using pdf-tools in emacs mode line?
As title said, is there a way to have page number shows up in the mode line of emacs? I am not using any fancy power-line, this is stock emacs mode line.
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Jump to a string in a PDF document
I want to write a function that jumps to a given string in a pdf document. I am using pdf-tools. Naively, I thought this would work:
(defun goto-string-in-pdf (pdffile)
"Jump to string 999 in ...
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Select a word in a PDF by double-clicking on it (with pdf-tools)
I use pdf-tools in Emacs to view PDF documents. I would like to be able to select words (mark their region and then copy them to the kill-ring) in the PDF by double-clicking on them. Is there a ...
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AUCTeX no longer using pdf-tools after using :bind and :map from use-package to define keybindings for PDFView mode
I'd like to define a Hydra for PDFView mode and bind a key for it in pdf-view-mode-map. However, it seems that if I try to bind any keys for pdf-view-mode-map using :bind and :map of use-package, ...
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How to disable text mode when open pdf in emacs?
I installed pdf-tools, but each time I open the pdf it is using the fundamental view mode (I assume it is text mode). I wonder is there a way to automatically use the pdf-view-mode?
Thanks.
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Preventing `TeX-command-run-all` from shifting focus
It seems that TeX-command-run-all shifts focus to the pdf window, which is quite annoying. Is there a way to prevent that?
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Auto-reverting only renderable PDF buffers
I'm using pdf-view mode and the global auto-revert mode with LaTeX and
latexmk. This works fine, except that, a couple of times during the
compilation, the PDF is in a useless state and the PDF ...
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Is it normal for a package to request [sudo] in order to install a package? (this case pdf-tools) concerned about password integrity
I installed pdf-tools through MELPA, and then labels it as installed on a restart but kept viewing pdfs through doc-view. So using M-x pdf-tools-install it requested the sudo password in order to ...
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Installing PDF-Tools Windows(non-geek tutorial)
I want to use pdf-tools to anotate pdf files using org-mode or viewing pdf outputs of my tex files which I hope it wil support syntex. I am following the official help to build for windows. I want to ...
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Pdf-tools fails to print
Using pdf-tools I attempt to print via pdf-print-misc-document though nothing gets printed?
In messages I see without any errors:
Print job started: /usr/bin/lpr -P myprinter -o media=a4 -o InputSlot=...
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mu4e: open PDFs with pdf-tools
I've just set up mu4e, and have noticed that when opening an attachment with the o key it will open with MuPDF. Pressing A w to open-with doesen't seem to help either, since it prompts for an external ...
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Fail to view PDF with pdf-tools
I have installed pdf-tools by melpha, and write a line in init.el file to load it. However, when I opened my pdf files I still couldn't view it and the error of "Error running timer ‘pdf-cache--...
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How can I change what happens when I click on a pdf-tools link?
I read pdfs with pdf-tools, but I think what I'm asking may apply to more than pdf-tools alone.
In any case, as an example, some research paper pdfs have references with clickable links - say a link ...
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AucTeX Plain TeX view refresh
I write *TeX in emacs with AucTeX, using pdf-tools as the viewer.
When I compile a LaTeX document in AucTeX with C-c C-c the viewer in the other window automatically refreshes, but this does not ...
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Problem creating an org-mode link to a pdf file from PDFView
When I try to store a link to a pdf file (opened with PDFView), I get the following error
Unable to percent escape character: \342
The link is stored with the following url:
Stored: file:/tmp/...
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Open some file types in new frame
I use split-frame (split-window-right in setup) for most things but would like Emacs to open some file types (specifically PDF files) in a new frame when using find-file.
Other files (for example ....
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Installing pdf-tools on Windows
I am new to Emacs and I am trying to install pdf-tools on Windows. I am following this, but I just couldn't understand what to do from the step 3. Could someone explain to me in very simple language ...
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png image support and pdftools
I have pdftools install and wish to use it with auctex. However, I cannot view the pdf as I get the error:
PNG image supported not compiled into Emacs
Output is simply the raw pdf.
I am using emacs ...
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pdf-tools-install takes a long time on startup
I've installed pdf-tools through MELPA, and it works like a charm. Funnily, and as is documented in the readme, the command pdf-tools-install needs to be run each time if you want pdf-tools to be ...
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Share pdf-tools installation between computers?
Q: how do I share a pdf-tools installation between computers?
I use pdf-tools on two
difference machines, and sync my .emacs.d between them via
Dropbox.
I have installed pdf-tools through
the
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Auto-revert for changed pdf buffers?
Specifically in the content of exporting org->latex->pdf when using pdftools to view the resulting pdf, how can I stop emacs from asking me if I want to revert the pdf buffer and instead just auto-...
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PDFView: allow vertical scrolling till the last line becomes the top one
I would like be able to link from an org buffer to a precise place in the PDF. When such a link is clicked, the PDF would be opened in a PDFView buffer on the required page and vertically scrolled so ...
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How to set the colors for pdf-tools annotations individually?
I would like to be able to set the annotation colors to be different (e.g. strike-out "black" while keeping highlight "yellow"). I asked about this as an issue at the github page for pdftools and was ...
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In PDFView how do you automate creating errata entries?
When reading PDF documents, I frequently find typos and sometimes more serious errors. I try to keep track of those findings with the intention of sending them to the authors or publishers, but doing ...
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Make pdf-tools remember the page I was on
How to make pdftools remember the page I was on when I close a PDF document, restart Emacs and reopen the PDF? Some PDF readers after opening a document go to the last page the user was on and don't ...
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Is there continuous scrolling and double page viewing in pdf-tools?
pdf-tools jumps from the end of one page to the next page. Is there a ways to activate some kind of smooth scrolling? Also is there a way to display a double sided layout on my screen?
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Symbol's function definition is void: pdf-tools-install after succesfull Installation with nor error messages
I tried to install pdf-tools under emacs 24 and Ubunt 16.04, like I did it several times succesfully.
But now I get the error messages:
Symbol's function definition is void: pdf-tools-install
PDFs ...
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Preview PDFs with helm-bibtex
I use helm-bibtex to navigate and manage my bibtex database. Each entry is linked to a PDF.
I am looking for a way to see a live preview of each pdf, while scanning through my helm completion window ...
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copy/paste text use pdf-tools in emacs
when I use pdf-tools
the text in it can't be copy/paste as normal
I want to treat this pdf mode as a place where I get the information to use in emacs
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pdf-tools indirect buffers
I am using an indirect buffer of a pdf from a pdf-tools PDFView buffer. This works except the indirect buffer is in DocView mode, and therefore I can't use any of the pdf-tools features in that buffer....
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Error on pdf-tools installation
My emacs version is 25.2 but i got the same issues on 24.3:
When i run M-x package-install-file RET pdf-tools-0.70.tar RET in emacs i get:
pdf-annot.el:32:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file ...
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Gnome Tracker integration with emacs
I use Gnome Tracker quite a bit and am led to wonder whether there is currently any way to use Tracker from within emacs? That is to say; searching for files indexed by Tracker, within emacs (and ...
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Window's PID of the current emacs' process
I use to edit LaTeX documents with okular as pdf viewer in Ubuntu Linux. I have this code:
(defun okular-forward-search ()
(interactive)
(start-process
"okular"
"okular-output"
"okular" ;...
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Configure org-pdfview and pdf-tools to open at page [duplicate]
I would like to have emacsclient as my default application for opening pdf-files, when openning them from within Emacs, based on a similar post emacsclient opens a file and does eval simultaneously. ...
