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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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Hide \author, \date, and \title when exporting to pdf with org-latex-export-to-pdf
OK, thanks to @wvxvw putting me on the right track I figured it out.
You can get rid of the author and date with:
#+OPTIONS: author:nil date:nil
The Org Manual says that you can also toggle title ...
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How do I get rid of the red boxes around the links in the TOC?
Following the links given here, you can get rid of the ugly red boxes by adding the following line in the beginning of your org file:
#+latex_header: \hypersetup{colorlinks=true}
If red isn't your ...
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Is there a way to resize margins when exporting PDF in org-mode?
Another way to achieve the same effect more permanently is to modify org-latex-packages-alist to add the geometry package, as follows:
(setq org-latex-packages-alist '(("margin=2cm" "geometry" nil)))
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How to change style of hyperlinks within PDF published from org-mode document?
While the previous answers are helpful, I'll add a bit more of an explicit recipe for Org mode.
By default, Org mode adds a rather unhelpful hypersetup section. You can prevent this addition by ...
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How to have wrapped text when exporting from org to Latex?
From a LaTeX point of view, these are different cases.
In the first case, LaTeX isn't going to wrap -- and it shouldn't! A "verbatim" environment, which is what source-code is set in, respects lines ...
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Changing default font size in Org LaTeX export
I think you can do this with:
#+latex_class_options: [10pt]
and
#+latex_header: \usepackage{setspace}
#+latex_header: \onehalfspacing
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Hide \author, \date, and \title when exporting to pdf with org-latex-export-to-pdf
You can also redefine LaTeX's \maketitle to do nothing:
#+Title: Test title
#+Author: Test Author
#+Date: [2016-03-28 Mon]
#+LATEX_HEADER: \renewcommand\maketitle{}
* hello
test text
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Install Pdf-Tools on Emacs MacOSX
For me, as of April 13, 2017, a reliable way to install pdf-tools on OS X (Mavericks/Sierra) is to use the following pdf-tools config and directions (in the comments):
;;; Install epdfinfo via 'brew ...
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How do I limit the width of a table or columns in org-mode PDF export?
You may try something like this:
#+ATTR_LATEX: :environment longtable :align |l|p{10cm}|l|
| | <30> | |
| Column | Wide ...
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Exporting Org in Landscape
What about putting the following in the export options:
#+LATEX_CLASS: article
#+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [landscape]
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[a4paper]{anysize}
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How to add annotation in PDF src block like in this screenshot?
This answer is focused on what I'm interested in, therefore it uses minted for source code listings with Org, and tikzmark as the package that can "mark" a place in your listing so that you can later ...
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read e-books in Emacs
Try nov (installable via melpa). It is a reasonable start for reading ePUBs in Emacs.
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Add cell background colors to org-mode table in pdf export
Getting inspiration from this answer, the following works. You must install the xcolor package as instructed there.
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage[table]{xcolor}
* table test
| hi | there ...
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Org-mode file hyperlinks always use doc-view, can't force it to use external pdf viewer
I fixed the problem by using M-x customize-variable org-file-apps and adding a cons-cell with Extension: \.pdf\' and Command: evince %s at the top.
Oddly enough, links starting with file+sys: still ...
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org-mode Beamer export: can't change format of title page and TOC
Instead of #+LaTeX: you should try #+BEAMER_HEADER: for all beamer specific configuration lines.
For example: #+BEAMER_HEADER: \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} removes navigation symbols in ...
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convert a text buffer to a pdf file?
This does not address the specific issue of bookmarks in the PDF, but does address the general problem of converting buffers to PDF.
If you want to get a PDF "screenshot" of the buffer as you ...
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Recolouring PDFs
Yes, there's a dark ("midnight") theme with pdf-tools.
Right-click somewhere within the displayed pdf, go to "Render Options" in the menu (about half-way down) and select "Midnight mode".
...
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How can I reliably create latex classes in org mode?
Your init file defines a notes class that can be used by org when exporting to LaTeX:
#+LATEX_CLASS: notes
It works fine, in the sense that it produces a latex output that starts out like this:
\...
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convert a text buffer to a pdf file?
You can do C-u M-x ps-print-buffer to print current buffer to a PS file and then pipe it through ps2pdf.
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How do I create a floating tikz figure when exporting to PDF in org-mode?
They key is to add a :results raw header argument (documentation) to the #+BEGIN_SRC line to prevent org-mode from wrapping the results in #+BEGIN_LaTeX/#+END_LaTeX:
#+begin_src latex :file fsa.pdf :...
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Org-mode file hyperlinks always use doc-view, can't force it to use external pdf viewer
I added
(add-to-list 'org-file-apps '("pdf" . "evince %s"))
to my init-file. Now C-c C-o opens any PDF in evince and C-u C-u C-c C-o opens them in doc-view.
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How to jump to a page in `DocView` mode when a pdf contains a roman numeral numbered introduction?
In pdf-tools you can type M-g l (pdf-view-goto-label), which asks for a page-label, which is usually equal to the displayed page-number.
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Printing/exporting to PDF from text-mode
Printing
I'm not sure what you've tried, but the best start would probably be ps-print-buffer-with-faces. This answer provides a convenient wrapper for generating a pdf file (copied below):
You ...
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Org Mode. Set separation length between elements of a list
PDF export is done by exporting the org mode document to LaTeX and then processing the LaTeX document to PDF. There is nothing on the org mode side to control that spacing but org mode does provide ...
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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 to change style of hyperlinks within PDF published from org-mode document?
I know this is old and the existing answers are already great. But in case anyone is searching for this and needed a bit more control, here's how to change the hyperref template.
(customize-set-value '...
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Opening .djvu files from emacs links
I use this construction in my .emacs init-file (for djvu I prefer Okular, but you may use Evince as well):
;; Files association
(setq org-file-apps
'((auto-mode . emacs)
("\\.x?html?\\'" . "...
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Working with LaTeX in Spacemacs: can PDFs be seen in a buffer, rather than via external PDF reader?
It's been ages since I set this up for myself, but here's the code I use. Essentially, it's just registering Emacs itself (or, rather, emacsclient) as an external viewer.
(add-to-list 'TeX-view-...
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Working with LaTeX in Spacemacs: can PDFs be seen in a buffer, rather than via external PDF reader?
Here is how I ended up solving the problem:
(setq TeX-view-program-selection '((output-pdf "PDF Tools"))
TeX-view-program-list '(("PDF Tools" TeX-pdf-tools-sync-view))
TeX-source-correlate-start-...
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