Questions tagged [okular]
Okular is a document viewer from KDE.
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How can I fix font issue with a PDF file?
I have a PDF file (this Mazda owner's manual to be precise) with font issues. Therefore I cannot search within. For instance, if you search for the word electric, Okular cannot find it (I've also ...
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Okular: error while loading shared libraries: libKF5Archive.so.5
$ okular
okular: error while loading shared libraries: libKF5Archive.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I'm the facing problem above while opening okular.
My distro is ...
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Use subpixel antialiasing in a KDE application running under Xfce
I'm running the Xfce desktop environment (Xubuntu 22.04) but I prefer to use Okular for PDFs because it has a neat fullscreen view. The problem is that the PDF reader doesn't seem to honor my system ...
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How to force onboard stay on top of full screen Okular in LXDE?
Whenever Okular is full screen, the on screen keyboard Onboard goes behind it.
How to pin onboard on top of full screen apps like Okular?
I am using Debian LXDE.
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Open tex file corresponding to an opened pdf file
Suppose I have opened a pdf file (say /path/to/my/file.pdf generated from LaTeX) in evince and want to open the corresponding LaTeX source file (/path/to/my/file.tex) in my emacs editor, I click on ...
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Okular: Transform tab into separate window
I usually want my PDFs to be opened in a single instance of Okular in separate tabs instead of having each PDF be opened in an independent Okular window. Therefore, I have enabled Open new files in ...
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PDF reader with thumbnail preview in the opening dialog
Situation: I download lots of PDFs which have unhelpful file names, such as arXiv papers (thanks, 1807.03042.pdf). I'm often reading one of them in Okular and want to switch to another, say just to ...
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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: ...
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How does an app get or find toolbar icons?
On Manjaro Linux, I installed the Okular PDF viewer. On its toolbars are various icons (e.g. the "hand" icon used for scrolling with the mouse).
My questions are:
Are these icons part of ...
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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 ...
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Disable "speak text" in Okular
I have personally no need for this feature and have never activated it except by error.
Sometimes I click that instead of copy and that unpleasing voice starts without any obvious way to make it stop....
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Cosmetic Glitches in Okular in Fedora 33 KDE
Okular shows "No Text" in place of "File" and other menu items in the top menu bar. See screenshot. I've tried removing and reinstalling the program to no success. What's causing ...
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Annotations not working in Okular (missing characters)
Yesterday, I upgraded to Fedora 34 from a F33 install.
Today, while using Okular (KDE's PDF reader), I noticed that special characters (áéíóúç etc...) doesn't appear in annotations made within the PDF....
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Is there a way of creating a hook on Okular for copying text when highlighting it?
Currently, when I use Okular, I can either be in highlight mode or text selection mode, but not both at the same time, which is very annoying because, while reading, I often copy excerpts of the text ...
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open with ... causes one program to appear multiple times
I have a: fresh installation of Linux mint 20 cinnamon a week ago (luv it)
and i have 3d ays ago installed okular for pdfs.
My Problem: when i want to open a file, that is unknown to the system with ...
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How to prevent okular from opening the same file in new window?
I use okular on a gnome desktop to open pdf files directly from zotero and then annotate them. However, sometimes it happens that I have the same file open in two different workspaces and if I ...
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How to copy paste a created text(annotation) by "typewriter" menu tool?
If I write an annotation by "typewriter" tool, how can I just duplicate it, copy pasting? I can't believe it is not doable....
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Bad rendering of graphics in Okular at higher zoom levels
Once you have inspected the screenshots below, you will see that Okular is significantly worse at rendering my two test files than many other well-known viewers. This is unfortunate, because in ...
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Okular can only open files from certain folders
I use okular for annotating some of my PDFs but have been having an issue recently where I can only open files that are on my SSD where I installed ubuntu, but not on the 2nd hard drive (located at /...
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How can I make annotation for djvu file when using Okular?
My OS is [03/13/2020,14:35:06@~]$ uname -a
Linux debian 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1 (2020-01-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux
That is, Debian 10 (Buster). When in Debian 9, I can make annotation in ...
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Okular opens PDFs without colours
I am using okular on Fedora 31. Any pdf I open is opened without any colours!
It is grey colored. Any idea what causes this?
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Why is flatpak so much bigger than snap (at least for Okular)?
I was looking at the best way of installing Okular in Xfce, avoiding too many dependencies. While apt mentions 100 dependencies in a 19 MB download, taking 101 MB on disk, I have tried flatpak and ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Okular annotation settings: porting from Opensuse to Mint Mate
I have two laptops: one with OpenSuse 15 and another one with Mint.
I would like to have the same Okular settings (toolbar and annotations in particular) in both systems.
I have everything ...
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Way to search pdf for annotations, edits and other review markings?
Problem: When I get a proof-read pdf back, sometimes there is only one mark every ten pages or so - and that mark can be so small (missed comma, etc.) that I might miss it when scanning through for ...
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Duplex printing on Kubuntu by default
When I was using Ubuntu 16.04, duplex printing worked like a charm with my Brother DCP-J4120DW. However, I switched to Kubuntu 18.04. This makes Okular the default document viewer and also my document ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Is there a way to launch okular, emacs, etc. in order to have fast pop up at command line
When I run emacs or okular from command line (these are two apps I use all the time) they are slow to launch. Is there a way to just have them running and ask for new frames from the command line?
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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 ...
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How to open PDF-file locked by password?
I discovered a PDF-file in my home directory apparently generated 2 years ago, of which I have no recollection how it got there; all my attempt to open it by using either "okular" or "acroread" ...
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Disable Okular Cache
I have a problem with okular (or it is actually not a problem but irritating).
Because of reasons I sometimes start okular from command line (zsh) and after I closed okular (sometimes after some ...
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kbuildsycoca4 issues after upgrading from Centos 7.3 to 7.4
I've taken over supporting a number of users on Centos desktops.
I recently upgraded from Centos 7.3 to 7.4, after the upgrade when the program okular is run from the command line we get the ...
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Customize the folder where Okular saves annotations
I know that Okular saves the annotations made in a PDF document in ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata. I would like to change this directory into the same one where the PDF document is. I cannot seem to ...
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Huge Okular fonts
I've been having a problem for a while now in that I, at some point, accidentally made my fonts in Okular HUGE. (See figure)
Since I don't know what I did, I also don't know how to undo it. I'm using ...
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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 mail@mail.com encrypted.pdf.gpg -o - | ...
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Okular in ubuntu cannot perform "selection" and copying&pasting
A "selection" tool in my okular 0.19.3 (soft -- ubuntu, 14-04) allows me to choose only one of those: "selection tool", "text selection tool", and "table selection tool". I need only "text selection ...
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Proper way to install Okular
Does someone know a proper way to install Okular on Linux Mint? I used command-line and package manager, both give same result: Okular doesn't have any icon, cannot open pdf, interface has disabled ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Newer version of Okular can no longer annotate certain pdf files
I recently updated to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from 14.04 LTS, and the Okular version now is 0.24.2. Now I cannot annotate certain pdf files (the "review" option is simply greyed out), which I previously had ...
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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 ...
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Is there any way to recover unsaved annotations in Okular after system crash
Other popular PDF software such as Adobe Reader or Skim (on OS X) offer a functionality to restore your annotations after a system crash even if you haven't saved the file manually yet. Does Okular ...
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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 ...
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Okular - Transparent inline note?
In Okular, when I set the opacity of an inline note to 0%, the note just disappears altogether, and I don't think that's the intended behavior of this setting. I've read on forums that this setting is ...
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Does okular/poppler support following intra-document cross-references in PDF files?
Using docbook and Apache FOP I can create PDFs that contain cross-references. For example, the Table of Contents of a book looks like this:
Chapter 1 Introduction........................12
Using ...
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Annotation does not work correctly in Okular
I hava a pdf file.
In okular 0.17.2 under Ubuntu 12.04, I have found two problems:
added inline note (by F6, and then 2) will be rotated 90 degree counterclockwise.
added underline (by F6, and then ...
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Okular doesn't work any more
Under My Ubuntu 12.04, Okular worke fine until I recently run apt-get upgrade. Now I can start Okular, but when try to open a pdf file, Okular just flashes and exits.
Here is the output when I run it ...
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