Hi, and I finally filed a ticket https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633594
Thanks! Jose Aliste <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe I am using the wrong terms -- I am not familiar with the internals > > of PDF documents, I am just going by analogy. > > > > I have my cursor positioned on a symbol FOO in C/C++/Python/whatever > > code. I can type M-. and it takes me to the symbol in source code. > > > > I can make up my own Emacs functions, like "browse-symbol" so if I am on > > symbol FOO, I can translate the symbol FOO to a URL, like > > "file:///.../xyz.html#label-FOO", then browse-url will take me there. > > > > I'd like to do the same thing with evince for a PDF file, so when I am > > on FOO, I can turn that in to some kind of a command I can send to > > evince, that evince will now go to "FOO" in the document. I know > > there's some kind of internal PDF structure for going to a location in > > the document. Right now, I can go to the index and click on the index > > entry for FOO and it will take me to the page for FOO. > > > > I'd like to be able to do the same thing, but have it driven by Emacs > > rather than my mouse. > > If there is an index entry for what you want to search in the PDF, > then what you need it to navigate links in the pdf. > I could probably add a GotoLink method to the /org/gnome/evince/Window > DBUS interface. Could you please file a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org so > that we can track such enhacement? > > Please see the synctex plugin in the gedit-plugins module to get an > idea of how to control evince using DBUS and python. > > Greetings, > > José _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
