39.1 DocView Navigation

In DocView mode, you can scroll the current page using the usual Emacs movement keys: C-p, C-n, C-b, C-f, and the arrow keys.

By default, the line-motion keys C-p and C-n stop scrolling at the beginning and end of the current page, respectively. However, if you change the variable doc-view-continuous to a non-nil value, then C-p displays the previous page if you are already at the beginning of the current page, and C-n displays the next page if you are at the end of the current page.

You can also display the next page by typing n, PageDown, next or C-x ] (doc-view-next-page). To display the previous page, type p, PageUp, prior or C-x [ (doc-view-previous-page).

SPC (doc-view-scroll-up-or-next-page) is a convenient way to advance through the document. It scrolls within the current page or advances to the next. DEL moves backwards in a similar way (doc-view-scroll-down-or-previous-page).

To go to the first page, type M-< (doc-view-first-page); to go to the last one, type M-> (doc-view-last-page). To jump to a page by its number, type M-g M-g or M-g g (doc-view-goto-page).

You can enlarge or shrink the document with + (doc-view-enlarge) and - (doc-view-shrink). By default, these commands just rescale the already-rendered image. If you instead want the image to be re-rendered at the new size, set doc-view-scale-internally to nil. To specify the default size for DocView, customize the variable doc-view-resolution.

When the mutool program is available, DocView will use it to generate entries for an outline menu, making it accessible via the imenu facility (see Imenu). To disable this functionality even when mutool can be found on your system, customize the variable doc-view-imenu-enabled to the nil value. You can further customize how imenu items are formatted and displayed using the variables doc-view-imenu-format and doc-view-imenu-flatten.