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How to use an external program as the default way to open PDFs from Emacs?

When I M-x find-file a PDF, it is opened in Emacs. While this is nice, Emacs' PDF viewer lacks many features that I need and I would prefer to open PDFs in an external program instead. How can I configure Emacs to use an external program as the…
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Is there a way to resize margins when exporting PDF in org-mode?

I want to export my org document as a PDF, but its margins are way too big. I would like to re-size them as I wish. I am using #+LaTeX_CLASS: report I do not know if there is a way. Any help?
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How to use pdf-tools (pdf-view-mode) in emacs?

pdf-tools includes pdf-view-mode which offers several features not present in doc-view-mode (see end of question). Can pdf-view-mode be used as a replacement for doc-view-mode generally, or does it have to be "tool" by tool? In either case, is it…
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Display PDF images in org-mode

Note: This question was asked here before, with no success. Org-mode’s ability to display inline images is fantastic for writing my weekly scientific reports. I can include graphs, link them with their data, link with the conclusions, and really…
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How to view and edit pdf files in emacs?

I heard that we can view pdf files in emacs. Is it done by converting pdf files to plain texts first? Can we view pdf files at its fullness in emacs? can we edit pdf files in emacs? Thanks.
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How to change style of hyperlinks within PDF published from org-mode document?

I'm exporting (publishing) an org-mode document to PDF, and the results look great except for the hyperlinks. They look terrible. Hyperlinks to the Web look the same, only with a pale blue outline. How can I control the style of links in the…
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Hide \author, \date, and \title when exporting to pdf with org-latex-export-to-pdf

I am very new to LaTeX and exporting org-mode files to pdf. When I run the command org-latex-export-to-pdf it adds a title, author name, and date to the top of the exported pdf. Looking at the generated LaTeX, I assume that comes from the…
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convert a text buffer to a pdf file?

How can we convert the current text buffer to a pdf file, preferably turning those headings started with * into bookmarks of the pdf file. For example, turning the Emacs integrated tutorial (shown by C-h t) into a bookmarked pdf file. Thanks.
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read e-books in Emacs

I use eww to read online articles in Emacs instead of in a browser because it is less distracting and I can take notes in an org-mode quickly without switching applications. I wonder how feasible it is to read an e-books in epub, or pdf format in…
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improve doc-view display quality

The fonts in my pdf's as displayed in doc-view aren't particularly readable. Is there a setting I can change to improve the image quality? I tried changing doc-view-resolution from 100 to 300, but that just made the pdf render larger.
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How do I get rid of the red boxes around the links in the TOC?

I wanted to get rid if the red boxes in TOC that we obtain when exporting org to pdf. The red boxes looks absolutely ugly and spoil the appearance of the entire document.
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Emacs got frozen when open pdf file

When I open pdf with emacs, it got frozen. And I installed pdf-tools, open pdf, it got frozen again. What's the underlining process when emacs open a pdf? Is there a lot of converting work? What should I do to speed it up? Emacs 24.4 Ubuntu 14.04…
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Can I configure eww to use pdf-view-mode (from pdf-tools) for PDFs instead of DocView?

I use pdf-tools to read PDFs inside of Emacs and greatly prefer it to DocView. I just noticed that when I try to open a URL thar points to a PDF in eww, it uses DocView instead of the pdf-view-mode from pdf-tools. This is particularly annoying since…
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How do I limit the width of a table or columns in org-mode PDF export?

I'd like to format a table with a wide column nicely in PDF export from org-mode. Ideally it would be with a wrap on that column, but I can deal with a manual character or fraction of \textwidth for that column. I've tried a number of things, but I…
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mark text with keyboard in PDFView (pdf-tools) mode

I've replaced doc-view mode with pdf-tools. While it's easy to set a mark on a page with the mouse, how do you do it with the keyboard? The readme mentions the feature. "* Mark a region and kill the text from the PDF." The closest I've gotten is…
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