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From: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org mode links: Open a PDF file at a given page and highlight a given string
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:46:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13190256.uLZWGnKmhe@linux.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leqdxhr2.fsf@localhost>

Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2022, 10:18:41 CET schrieb Ihor Radchenko:
> Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> >> I think that it is a very good idea for Org core to support search terms
> >> in file links that are handled by Free Software.
> > 
> > Maybe I misunderstand something, but your stress on Free Software here
> > surprised me. I did not mention explicitly any proprietary application
> > such as Adobe Reader. On the other hand support of Chromium (that is
> > free) unavoidably assumes Google Chrome and likely MS Edge with other
> > derived products with same customization as chromium vs.
> > chromium-browser command name discrepancy in Linux distros.
> 
> I was referring to GPL-compatible software.
> If we have better integration with Libre/Free Software, it is suitable
> for Org core. IMHO.

[...]

> > I am considering a single package, something like org-pdfviewer, that
> > has definitions for all popular viewers: evince, okular, firefox,
> > chromium, etc. I believed that user should explicitly configure
> > preferred viewer by either adding an entry with supplied function to
> > `org-file-apps' or this package has its own defcustoms and the entry
> > injected to some variable as you suggested in
> > Ihor Radchenko. Re: [PATCH v2] org.el: Fix percent substitutions in
> > `org-open-file' Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:46:41 +0800.
> > https://list.orgmode.org/875yi2xtj2.fsf@localhost
> > 
> > The point of defcustoms in the package instead of (or in addition to)
> > `org-file-apps' is that evince and okular support more formats than PDF.
> 
> I understand your idea. What I am suggesting is to implement support for
> a subset of popular viewers (the Libre ones) and add it to Org core.
> Support for non-Libre viewers could be added ad third-party packages
> based on the Org core implementation.
> 


Has this been done? I'm struggeling (again), how to link to a certain page of 
a PDF, being opened in okular. 

./link/xyz.pdf::123 does not open the pdf at p. 123




  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-25 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-02 20:07 Org mode links: Open a PDF file at a given page and highlight a given string Rodrigo Morales
2021-03-02 22:36 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-03-03 12:37   ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-09-27 16:39   ` Max Nikulin
2021-03-03  2:31 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-03 14:51   ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-03-03 16:11     ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-03-05 13:02       ` Maxim Nikulin
2022-09-03 13:00 ` Max Nikulin
2022-09-20 11:54   ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-20 17:03     ` Max Nikulin
2022-09-21  8:17       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-21  8:18       ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-25 11:46         ` AW [this message]
2023-01-25 11:55           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-25 12:35           ` Max Nikulin
2023-01-25 14:33           ` Jean Louis
2022-10-04  6:45 ` Ihor Radchenko

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