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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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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Display annotation contents horizontally in pdf-tools *with* live-preview
When looking at annotations with the pdf-annot-list-annotations command from the pdf-tools package, I prefer to preview my annotation contents in a separate buffer, which is the default behavior. ...
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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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Software to fill in a PDF document
As part of my work, I have to fill in a particular form that is provided to me. That form comes in either PDF or Word (.doc) sources. In the end, a PDF document needs to be generated. The PDF form ...
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pdf-tools: save the region as annotation
In a very interesting post at pracmatic emacs, it is shown that the line
(setq pdf-annot-activate-created-annotations t)
activates annotations once a region is highlighted.
I'd like the text in the ...
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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. ...
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Emacs pdf-tools writing function
Recently I am indulging in Emacs. I tried to use it as my LaTeX tool, so I installed pdf-tools. If I add
(pdf-tools-install)
in my init file, it will take about 2 seconds to start Emacs. So I want ...
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Call emacsclient from a program called by Emacs
I've run into a problem viewing pdf documentation files with AucTex. I use pdf-tools to view PDF files from within Emacs, and I've set emacsclient -n as my default pdf-viewer (via xdg-mime on Debian ...
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pdf-tools: View multiple pages in one buffer - like evince's continous mode
pdf-tools shows by default just one page in the buffer at once. How can it be configured, that it displays multiple pages below each other just like evince does in "continuous" mode, if the zoom ...
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Emacs: mark contents as type image in copy to clipboard
When using pdf-tools (https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools) I'd like to be able to select and area and copy it to the clipboard as an image, so as to insert into other applications. Selecting is easy ...
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How do I rotate pages in pdf-tools?
Q: how do I rotate PDFs in pdf-tools?
Sometimes, I want to rotate a PDF page to toggle between portrait
and landscape. This comes up in two common settings:
An academic article has a wide table/...
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Is it possible to export highlighted text with pdf-tools?
When using Skim I can export any kind of pdf annotations, including highlighted text, to a file.
Is it possible to do the same thing with pdf-tools in Emacs?
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How to print a PDF, displayed with pdf-tools, from Emacs?
I'm using PDF-Tools (https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools) to display PDFs inside Emacs. But how to print them? C-c C-p raises the question »Print with:« and I have no idea how to answer it.
I'm ...
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How to use the same pdf-tools install on OSX and Linux simultaneously?
Q: how can I get pdf-tools to work simultaneously on OSX and Linux?
I keep my .emacs.d directory synced over Dropbox, and share it between machines running OSX and Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu). I got ...
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Search for either of two words using isearch
Is there a way to use isearch (only search i think that works in pdf-tools)? to search for either of two words at the same time? It would search in the pdf for 'eval' or 'valid' and move forward in ...
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Use PDFView as default AucTex PDF Viewer
I'd like to use PDFView mode as the default PDF reader when editing LaTeX code in AucTeX, using Emacs 24. For example, after compiling with C-c C-c, redoing this command would open the PDF file in a ...
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Making pdf-tools work after successful compiling on mac os x
After installing the required dependencies with homebrew, I was able to compile pdf-tools . But I cannot make it work (I cannot see the pdf on emacs after compiling)
I would like to know if somebody ...
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Make pdf-tools do pdf-sync-forward-search after compilation
Using pdf-tools for showing pdfs in emacs is great! But when I use it, I alway have to do a (C-c C-g) i.e., pdf-sync-forward-search after compilation. How can I make emacs do this automatically?
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How to use pdf-tools (pdf-view-mode) in emacs?
pdf-tools includes pdf-view-mode which offers several features not present in doc-view-mode (see end of question).
Can pdf-view-mode be used as a replacement for doc-view-mode generally, or does it ...
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How to let AUCTeX open PDF with pdf-tools
Some TeX/LaTeX editor has support for embedding PDF viewer, and forward/backward search support.
I want to configure AUCTeX and pdf-tools to this result.
I found a discussion in mailing list.
https:...
