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A keyboard-friendly customizable document viewer with plugins for different document types.

zathura is an open-source document viewer with separately packaged plugins for pdf, PostScript, DjVu and Comic-Book documents. Ensure the appropriate ones are installed to avoid Unknown file type messages.

Navigation can be performed entirely with the keyboard, but the mouse can still be used, with settable bindings for each action. Places can be bookmarked and saved, or quickmarked with a letter to easily find them again. SyncTeX allows you to have simultaneous navigation in the source LaTeX document.

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How to enable copy-to-clipboard with zathura-pdf-poppler?

How do I make Zathura copy selected text to the system clipboard? I'm using Zathura with the poppler PDF plugin.
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Can Zathura's "dual" page mode use a page offset?

When viewing PDFs that are setup for print, I often want to view facing page spreads. Typically PDFs are typeset such that the first page of the file/part/chapter always starts on a right page so facing page spreads are always even-odd number pairs.…
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How can I calibrate Zathura's zoom levels to my monitors?

I'm using Zathura (using the MuPDF plugin) to review various layouts for printing. It's important to me that I'm looking at things approximately the same size as they will come out on paper. I realize the difference between screen pixels and how…
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Change zathuras display mode to single page only

I recently switched from Debian to Arch. Now I have a newer version of zathura, which displays the pages continuously. For poppler as well as mupdf, I need the discrete display mode. Is this fixed now? I can't find an option to change this…
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zathura: How do I add a keybind for exec?

zathura is my default PDF reader. Some files cause it trouble though, and in such cases I run :exec acroread $FILE which automatically opens the same file with Acrobat Reader. How do I add a key shortcut to the zathura configuration file…
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Zathura: how to print specified pages

I would like to print some pages from a large pdf file within Zathura (typically the current, or a range of pages). What is the syntax to do that? Edit: The solution was quite obvious... By the developer himself: Select the page range in the…
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Zathura's best-fit command ('a') for documents with varying page size

I'm usually using the wonderful document viewer 'zathura' for reading PDF-files. Typically, for some documents, the first page of the document is slightly larger than the rest (for example, a photograph of a book cover). In this case the 'best-fit'…
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How to read pdf annotations in Zathura?

I opened a pdf with annotations (created in evince) with Zathura, and I see the little yellow sign for notes at the right place, but how to open them? It seems that there is a commit about it, but in the man page I can't find a shortcut or…
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Can Zathura show pdf bookmarks generated by other pdf programs?

I have pdf ebooks with extensive (nested) bookmarks that are visible in all my other pdf readers (e.g. evince, foxitreader). However, when I open said files in Zathura, running blist gives: No bookmarks available I get the same result with both…
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How to change white background color of zathura?

I want to change the white background color in zathura pdf reader. I've tried for example :set default-bg \#6db46 but only the corners change into green.
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Can I retain quickmarks (not bookmarks) in Zathura after closing?

I recently discovered Zathura, and like it quite a bit. In particular, I like that I can use "quickmarks" as in vim. That is, by just pressing e.g. ma, I can create the quickmark a, to which I can then jump by pressing 'a. However, whenever I close…
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How to remap an existing keybinding in Zathura

After reading the man zathurarc for the map command, I still don't know how to remap an existing keybinding. By "remapping", I mean replacing a current keymapping for a given action. Problem: (Control + click) is currently mapped to the…
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Let X11 window open in specific size and position

I installed zathura via homebrew from this github repository. It works well, but the window which zathura creates is an X11 (XQuartz) window which can't be controlled with BetterTouchTool. So I only can manually resize and reposition the window.…
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Start Zathura full-screen / remember window size

How do I start the document viewer Zathura maximised? Is there any way to get my window manager xfce to remember the last open window's size? The default window size is only about 1/8th of my screen.
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Smooth scroll in Zathura

I am trying to enable the smooth scrolling feature in Zathura. I have the following line in my zathurarc: set smooth-scroll true, but the scrolling doesn't become smooth. According to the documentation: smooth-scroll Defines if scrolling via…
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