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Questions tagged [okular]

Okular is a document viewer from KDE.

Okular is a multi-platform viewer that can show many different document formats including PDF, Postscript, DejaVu, CHM, XPS, ePub Ebook, images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP and so on), comic book (CBR, CBZ), Tex DVI, ODT and more.

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How to restore Okular default (toolbar) settings

I've somehow managed to remove the toolbar and menu-bar from Okular. After I've found no way to reactivate them from "outside" – sice I can't click on Options anymore – I've tried to reinstall a clean version after removing it with apt-get remove…
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Storing Okular PDF annotations and metadata in the PDF itself

The PDF viewer Okular (part of KDE desktop) has lots of nice features and supports lots of file formats. One of the things I like about it is the comments and annotations. Unfortunately, all of the comments and metadata (like last viewed page) get…
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How do I delete a page from a PDF in Okular?

Didn't see an option in the menus or any documentation on what I imagine is something simple: I have a multi-page PDF and want to delete a specific page within Okular's GUI.
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Is it possible to make okular not flash when reloading a file?

When I am writing a TeX document, I use a setup to automatically recompile my *.tex files into a pdf as soon as a source file changes (using latexmk). So I put a terminal with nvim on one side of the screen and okular with the pdf output on the…
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how to un-hide the Menubar in Okular

In Okular, the visibility of toolbars and panels can be toggled via Settings on the Menubar. From this menu, even the Menubar itself can be hidden, which leaves me with no way to restore it. How do I restore the Menubar when it is hidden?
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How to create a self-signed certificate for Okular PDF

I am at a loss. I want to create a self-signed certificate to sign PDFs with Okular. I have not found any step-by-step directions that work. I tried creating and installing a certificate, but Okular did not recognize it. This was couple weeks ago,…
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If I open the same file twice in Okular, switch to the existing window

I have always been confused why the file manager in Linux cannot stop applications from opening a single file twice at the same time? Specifically, I want to stop the PDF file reader Okular from opening the file A.pdf again when I have already…
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Maximum number of clients reachedqt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0

I am using Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon with kernel version 5.4.0-97-generic. I am facing recent issue when try to open okular from terminal or start-menu.. Maximum number of clients reachedqt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin:…
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How to make okular open http/https links in PDFs with firefox?

I'm on FreeBSD and have compiled and installed the graphics/okular port (i.e. not much else of KDE4 other than okular's dependencies.) This has installed version 1.8.0. I start my X11 manually with startx and use FVWM as the window manager. When I…
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How do I open files with flatpak okular from command line?

I have an alias for okular installed with flatpak that is set up like this: alias okular="org.kde.okular" It opens up okular from the terminal. However if I try to open a file from the terminal with that alias e.g: okular document.pdf Then it…
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Which command allows me to read a pdf from stdin?

I am looking for a GUI program that opens a pdf from stdin. For instance, if pdf_stdin is the command that opens my pdf from stdin, I'd like to use ggp -d -r [email protected] encrypted.pdf.gpg -o - | pdf_stdin man -t arpwatch | pdf_stdin
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Is it possible to have multiple "--unique" windows in Okular?

I am using Okular to view LaTeX documents as I am writing them and occasionally compiling. I used to use Evince but I had a lot of trouble setting up forward/reverse searching, which is easy to do in Okular. For doing forward searching from the text…
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Change colour of Okular task-bar-icon in desktop-panel for specific document?

I use Linux Mint 18 and often have a lot of PDFs open in Okular at the same time. One of these documents is more important than the others, and I want to change the color of its tab, in the panel, so that I can easily see it. This effect happens on…
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Export comments only from Okular Pdf-reader (tangling)

I use Okular annotations for my Pdfs and use the highlighting and underline-features quite frequently. From some documents it would be nice to export all the passages, that have been highlighted to a (preferably) plain text document, so I can work…
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Open multiple pdfs in Okular from command line

I have Okular configured that when it's already running and I open a pdf from the command line, it should open the new file as a new tab in Okular. However, if this new file is in another directory than the other one, Okular fails to open the…
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