https://wikemacs.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=PdfPdf - Revision history2026-04-10T11:17:59ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.14https://wikemacs.org/index.php?title=Pdf&diff=47698&oldid=prevElvince: pdf viewing2017-01-02T14:34:10Z<p>pdf viewing</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>How can we handle PDF documents in Emacs ?<br />
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= Builtin =<br />
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[[Docview]] is the builtin mode to view non-text documents like PDF and odt files. It works by transforming files to an image and displaying the image.<br />
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It is less advanced than the following packages though.<br />
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= Extensions =<br />
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== pdf-tools, advanced pdf viewer ==<br />
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[https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools pdf-tools] aims to be, among other things, a DocView replacement. It can do many more things, like interactive searches, annotations, outline, kill some text from the pdf, and some more.</div>Elvince