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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Passing an option to org-file-apps?
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 09:02:57 +0200
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On Jul 17, 2008, at 5:30 AM, anhnmncb wrote:

> Hi, list,
> I have an external link like this:
>  [[file:~/doc/foo.pdf]]
> And I have configured to use xpdf to open it, but every time I open  
> it,
> it always at the first page.
>
> If can I pass an option to xpdf, so after I finish reading, I change  
> the
> page number, then next time I open it, it will automatically open that
> page for me?
>
> Something like this:
>  [[file:~/doc/foo.pdf 25]]
> So org will invoke xpdf in this way: xpdf ~/doc/foo.pdf 25.

Org has no mechanism to pass switches to external commands.  But you  
can try to find a pdf viewer that supports going back to a previous  
location.  For example, "Preview" in MacOS X does this, maybe there  
are also open source programs that do it.

- Carsten