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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org-link to the exact page-position in a pdf file
Newest EDIT
I think my question wasn't very clear, so I'm trying to put some details.
With pdf-tools opening pdf files withing Emacs (PDFview
buffers) works great. What I like is to get an org-link ...
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Integrating a shell script with Emacs + aucTeX
I use git to track changes in my LaTeX documents. Emacs is my IDE of choice (20+ years and counting). A very common use case is the use of latexdiff to examine changes in the document between ...
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reftex select buffer
I use auctex/reftex with pdftools for preview. I use a vertical split C-x 3 of the emacs frame with the left buffer being the pdf preview and the right buffer being the latex file.
When I invoke ...
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Keep original colors in pdf-view-midnight-minor-mode?
Q: can I keep the original colors for plots and photos in
pdf-view-midnight-minor-mode?
pdf-view's midnight minor mode allows me to change the
foreground and background colors of a PDF document to ...
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Hand-tool for pdf-tools
Is there anyway to have some kind of hand tool in pdf-tools like the one known from Adobe Reader? What I want most is that you can navigate in a zoomed-in pdf by holding your left mouse key and ...
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Unable to install pdf-tools on spacemacs
Running Spacemacs 0.300 on Emacs 27.2.
When I try installing pdf-tools by adding pdf-tools to dotspacemacs-configuration-layers, it produces an error:
* Testing settings in dotspacemacs/layers [[file:/...
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orgmode sync beamer with header in orgmode file
I am creating my beamer presentations with orgmode and convert the file to tex and pdf when saving. This works quite fine.
What I am looking for is that the pdf (seen inside emacs with pdfview/pdf-...
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pdf-view-mode - pdfs documents are blinking/flickering on scroll
I have small problem with pdf-tools - documents in pdf-view-mode are flickering/blinking on scroll. I am not well oriented about rendering, refreshing and all this stuff with pdfs. This is not about ...
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Pdf-tools: Toggle between viewing and editing mode
In DocView (without pdf-tools installed) I could hit C-c C-c to toggle between viewing-mode and editing-mode. After installing pdf-tools I expected C-c C-c to act the same. But now it toggles between ...
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How to edit a documents outline in pdf-tools?
By pressing o you can open the outline for the pdf document. Is there any way you can also add new sections with the corresponding pages to this outline?
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Extracting all annotations from a PDF using org-noter or pdftools in Emacs
Two questions:
(1) I'd like to unify my note-taking flow: I am using both org-noter and org-pdftools.
If I make an annotation using org-noter, it is created in the orgmode document to that end as a ...
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Open PDF files with pdf-tools does not work
I want to use pdf-tools to read my pdf with emacs. I am on Emacs 27.1 with spacemacs 0.300.x.
I have pdf-tools as a package in my .spacemac file and also require
'(TeX-view-program-selection
'((...
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Increase scrolling speed in pdf-tools
Is there a way to speed up a speed of scrolling in pdf-tools (PDFView), or remove a delay when the scrolling button is continuously pressed?
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Highlight text without call commands in pdf-tools
Can I enter some 'highlight-mode' in pdf-tools that I can select and highlight text immediately without calling pdf-annot-add-highlight-markup-annotation or C-c C-a h?
Thanks!
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How to set the frame for opening pdf in org mode?
I have two links in my org buffer:
[file://tmp/foo.pdf]
[file://tmp/bar.pdf]
Hitting enter on [file://tmp/foo.pdf] opens the pdf in the same frame (using pdf-tools / ..Running /usr/bin/xdg-open..).
I ...
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Poor display quality with pdf-tools after system update
I am using manjaro operating system. After the last system update I noticed a somewhat annoying thing when viewing pdf files in emacs with pdf-tools. The rendering quality become poor and the image ...
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Fit window to pdf upon loading
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I'm running auctex and pdf-tools to view pdf's within emacs. My problem is that I'd like to scale the pdf window horizontally after running C-c C-c.
So far, I've created a hook to execute ...
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error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.101: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Running Doom Emacs 2.0.9 on Emacs 27.1 on Manjaro KDE.
When I compile a latex documents, it produces a PDF file and opens an emacs window to display it. But what is displayed is some text and not the ...
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PDFView scroll line
I'm using <space> to scroll down in a pdf document that does not fit completely in a frame. However, this disrupts the reading flow as I need to find again the correct line that is now ...
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org-download-screenshot from pdf-tools with renaming according to pdf name and pdf page
I would like to use org-download-screenshot (or some other function) in combination with pdf-tools.
This works quite well out of the box. What I am missing is a enhanced renaming of the screenshot.
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Manually installed pdf-tools breaks package handling because it is not recognized as a dependency
The situation is:
I install pdf-tools manually and load it with the following snippet:
(use-package pdf-tools
:pin manual
:load-path "my/load/path/to/the/git/repo/lisp"
:config
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Edit PDF page labels in pdf-tools?
Q: how can I change PDF page labels with pdf-tools?
pdf-tools has the capacity to annotate PDFs, which is great.
Can it also change the page labels as well? That is, not the
raw page number, but the ...
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Adding bookmarks in pdf-tools
Is there a way to add and view bookmarks in pdf-tools?
Or else How could I go about adding this feature?
I'm not actually sure if this is even a feature of pdfs.
All I know is I can do this with ...
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Get position in a pdf-page by clicking for annoting a pdf with latex
In https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/85676/4011, it is illustrated of how to annotated a pdf by using the latex package pdfpages, loading the pdf as a background layer and then use tikz nodes to make ...
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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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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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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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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 ....
