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How to use pdf-tools (pdf-view-mode) in emacs?
Switching from docview to pdf-tools happens 'automatically' when you install pdf-tools. Once you've done this, any time Emacs tries to open a pdf in Emacs, it will use pdf-tools. However, some ...
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pdf-tools: View multiple pages in one buffer - like evince's continous mode
It can't do that. I have some ideas about how to implement this, but nothing has materialized yet.
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Is it possible to export highlighted text with pdf-tools?
I don't know if it is possible with pdf-tools, but it is possible with org-noter (https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter).
Here is a little demonstration:
You call org-noter in the pdf buffer. Then ...
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Search for either of two words using isearch
C-M-s to invoke isearch-forward-regexp then type aaa\|bbb, where aaa is your first word and bbb is your second.
Alternatives, just C-s to invoke isearch, then press M-r to toggle to regex.
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How to print a PDF, displayed with pdf-tools, from Emacs?
You need to set the variable pdf-misc-print-programm and possibly also pdf-misc-print-programm-args in the pdf-misc customisation group. They should be set to the system command that you will print ...
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Is there continuous scrolling and double page viewing in pdf-tools?
Currently, this is not possible. Several feature requests have been submitted on the project's GitHub page: Feature request: continuous view #27, and more recently, Double pages layout #303.
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Call emacsclient from a program called by Emacs
The solution is to run texdoc within an asynchronous process.
The best way to do that is probably to use start-file-process instead of shell-command-to-string (which is a handy function for quick&...
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Select a word in a PDF by double-clicking on it (with pdf-tools)
At first, note that pdf-sync binds mouse-double-1 in the minor mode pdf-sync-minor-mode to pdf-sync-backward-search-mouse. So one should probably only bind it in a minor mode that can be deactivated ...
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How do I rotate pages in pdf-tools?
As @kaushalmodi's post notes, rotation is apparently an open issue
for pdf-tools, and it's apparently trickier to implement than
expected. Comments on github indicate that a workaround is to use
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Installing pdf-tools on Windows
You need Emacs and cask installed before compiling pdf-tools.
pacman -S python
pacman -S git
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cask/cask/master/go | python
git clone https://github.com/...
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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
The reason you were asked for your password was that apt-get install was being invoked to install the additional software (poppler and friends) needed by pdf-tools.
1) Is this typical?
No -- the ...
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auctex and pdf-tools in 2 separate frames for dual monitor setup
This is a variation of the question about preview the pdf in a split buffer beside the source.
You can use the following Elisp code in your init file.
If you do not have already two frames. The pdf ...
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Make pdf-tools remember the page I was on
The pdf-view-restore works for me and is available on MELPA. But the pdf-view-restore github page seems to provide more useful configuration instructions.
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pdf-tools-install takes a long time on startup
After having pdf-tools installed (just once), put the following in your init file:
(add-hook 'doc-view-mode-hook 'pdf-tools-install)
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copy/paste text use pdf-tools in emacs
You should be able to use pdf-view-kill-ring-save to send highlighted text to the kill-ring. At that point you can yank it to a buffer as normal.
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pdf-tools indirect buffers
Indirect buffer need special support, since their buffer-file-name is
nil. But this is currently not implemented in pdf-tools. So it seems
that the answer is no.
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How can I change what happens when I click on a pdf-tools link?
I'll answer your actual problem of modifying the action for following links with pdf-tools.
The customizable option pdf-links-browse-uri-function holds a function that receives a string with the uri ...
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mu4e: open PDFs with pdf-tools
Recapping discussion in comments: Pressing A e, for "in-emacs", opens the attachment in PDFView. o e works exactly the same.
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pdf-tools auctex question with split buffers
The solution at the bottom of this answer does not work anymore after https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/f646675cd1637948b2df2351a9666792ea8251ea
The extra argument DEDICATE of window--...
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Edit PDF page labels in pdf-tools?
You can do this with the Java variant of pdftk, starting from version 3.1.0.
First, create a file with the metadata you want, e.g.:
PageLabelBegin
PageLabelNewIndex: 1
PageLabelStart: 1
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error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.101: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
TL;DR
Go to path/to/.emacs.d/elpa/pdf-tools-xxx/build and run make clean to clean previously compiled contents manually.
Restart emacs and let it build pdf-tools. Then, pdf-tools works again :)
I ...
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How can I get horizontal scrolling in PDFview to work?
I had the same problem and I also discovered the hard way that global-display-line-numbers-mode breaks image-forward-hscroll.
I have the following workaround:
(defun bugfix-display-line-numbers--turn-...
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How to use the same pdf-tools install on OSX and Linux simultaneously?
I guess one option is to add a .gitignore which prevents Git from tracking that executable. The downside of course is that it will force you to re-build that executable on every machine.
Another is ...
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How do I rotate pages in pdf-tools?
It looks like this feature needs to be added to pdf-tools.
Someone has already posted an issue on this github requesting this enhancement:
pdf-tools/Issue#89
From one comment, the workaround used ...
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Error on pdf-tools installation
pdf-tools depends on the tablist package (which you can find on MELPA, for example). I can't help you with the second error.
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Preview PDFs with helm-bibtex
Look into helm's persistent actions. Basically allows you to execute an action (like opening the PDF) without ending the helm session. If your helm-bibtex is setup to use pdf-tools for viewing PDFs (...
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Emacs pdf-tools writing function
Got it to work! Thanks guys!
I added
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.pdf\\'" . doc-view-mode))
and
(add-hook 'doc-view-mode-hook #'pdf-tools-install)
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Is there continuous scrolling and double page viewing in pdf-tools?
Maybe a bit late, but there is a fix that works for me, see here: https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/55
The second-to-last post has a fix which works for me. Place the functions somewhere in ...
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pdf-tools-install takes a long time on startup
Try setting the variable pdf-view-use-unicode-ligther to nil, according to the doc it speeds up the loading on systems where looking for the unicode symbols used in the mode line (⎙ and 🌙) takes a ...
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Share pdf-tools installation between computers?
pdf-tools requires a separate executable, epdfinfo, in order to function. This executable is distributed as source code within the pdf-tools package. As such, it gets compiled whenever you install or ...
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