10
votes
Accepted
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 ...
- 396
5
votes
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.
...
- 1,119
5
votes
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&...
- 26.7k
5
votes
Accepted
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 ...
- 33.7k
4
votes
Accepted
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 ...
- 53k
4
votes
Accepted
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/...
4
votes
Accepted
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 ...
- 33.7k
4
votes
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-...
- 33.7k
3
votes
Accepted
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.
- 7,985
3
votes
Accepted
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.
- 3,096
3
votes
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 ...
- 33.7k
3
votes
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)
3
votes
Accepted
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.
- 1,605
3
votes
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.
- 3,386
3
votes
Accepted
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--...
- 33.7k
3
votes
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
...
- 273
3
votes
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 ...
- 31
2
votes
Accepted
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)
- 179
2
votes
Accepted
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.
- 3,386
2
votes
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 (...
- 2,592
2
votes
Accepted
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 ...
- 2,088
2
votes
Accepted
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 ...
- 22.8k
2
votes
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 ...
- 75
2
votes
Accepted
Jump to a string in a PDF document
Apart from choosing the right buffer, this function suggests the necessary steps.
(defun pdf-search-forward (string)
(interactive "sString: ")
;; Expect a pdf-window, else the highlighting won't ...
- 3,386
2
votes
Accepted
pdf-tools asking to be rebuilt when emacs is started
just uncomment ;;(pdf-tools-install) in your init.el. If it once installed then it have not to do it every time.
That worked for me, had the same problem.
- 36
2
votes
Hide empty margins in pdf
Here is my configuration of pdf-tools using use-package. The relevant part to answer this question is the hook of pdf-view-auto-slice-minor-mode. Alternatively, a one liner would be (add-hook 'pdf-...
- 794
2
votes
Adding bookmarks in pdf-tools
org-pdftools is able to set pdf page links, which can then be saved in an org-mode file. Alternatively, if you want to have something embedded in the pdf file, you can add an annotation somewhere on ...
- 794
2
votes
Fit window to pdf upon loading
As you are mentioning that you have to call fit-window-to-buffer a few times, I am not sure if this is gonna work, but you might try to delay execution using a timer as follows:
(add-hook 'pdf-view-...
- 7,985
2
votes
org-link to the exact page-position in a pdf file
SECOND EDIT (incl. 'main' answer)
As mentioned in the comments, this feature has already been implemented into org-pdftools. However, org-pdftools does insert a permanent text annotation, but I guess ...
- 7,985
2
votes
pdf-tools latex annotations render in pdf
PDF-tools uses the poppler pdf library for 'handling' the PDF's. As far as I know, it is not capable of adding images to existing PDF's. So the short answer is, no, it is not possible in a ...
- 7,985
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible