QPDFVIEW(1) General Commands Manual QPDFVIEW(1)
NAME
qpdfview - tabbed document viewer
SYNOPSIS
qpdfview [options] [--] [file[#page]] [file[#src:name:line:column]] ...
DESCRIPTION
qpdfview is a simple viewer for document files in the portable document
format (PDF). It uses the Poppler library for rendering and the Qt
toolkit for its interface.
OPTIONS
--help Displays usage information.
--quiet
Suppresses warning messages which are displayed if the program
fails to open a file.
--search text
Initiates a search for text in the current tab.
--unique
If an instance of qpdfview is started with this option, any
files that are opened using this option afterwards, are opened
as tabs in the original window. If a file is already opened in a
tab of the original window, it is merely reloaded.
--instance name
Uses name as the name of the instance contacted or created using
the "--unique" option. This allows one to run multiple instances
and remotely open and refresh tabs in any of them by passing the
instance name. The argument must only contain the characters
"[A-Z][a-z][0-9]_" and must not begin with a digit.
--choose-instance
Can be combined with the "--unique" option to display a dialog
at start-up where the instance name can be chosen with all in-
stances that have tabs stored as suggestions.
[file[#page]]
file specifies the file to open. The optional parameter page
opens the file at the given page. Multiple files will be opened
in separate tabs.
[file[#src:name:line:column]]
Forward search using SyncTeX is performed using the optional pa-
rameters name which is the name of the source file, line which
is the line number in the source file and column which is the
column number in the source file where the number 0 matches all
lines respectively columns.
INTER-PROCESS COMMUNICATION
If the program is invoked using the "--unique" option, it registers an
introspectable D-Bus interface at "local.qpdfview/MainWindow" which can
be used to communicate with the application. If the "--instance" option
is used, the D-Bus interface is registered at "lo-
cal.qpdfview.name/MainWindow".
CONFIGURATION FILES
qpdfview uses configuration files usually located at
"~/.config/qpdfview"
with the majority of settings contained in "qpdfview.conf".
Persitent state like per-file settings, bookmarks and tabs is stored in
an SQLite database usually located at
"~/.local/share/data/qpdfview/qpdfview".
The icon theme used by Qt can be changed by setting the key "iconTheme"
in the section "mainWindow". The application-wide Qt style sheet can be
changed by setting the key "styleSheet" in the section "mainWindow".
The tile size in pixels used for tiled rendering can be adjusted by
setting the key "tileSize" in the section "pageItem". The default value
is 1024 pixels.
The minimum resp. maximum scale factor can be modified by changing the
keys "minimumScaleFactor" resp. "maximumScaleFactor" in the section
"documentView". The default values are 0.1 resp. 10.0.
The timeout for auto-refresh resp. prefetch can be changed by setting
the keys "autoRefreshTimeout" resp. "prefetchTimeout" in the section
"documentView". The defaults are 750 resp. 250 milliseconds.
The maximum number of per-file settings can be modified by changing the
key "perFileSettingsLimit" in the section "mainWindow". The default
value is 1000.
EXAMPLES
The command
qpdfview foo.pdf#3 bar.pdf
opens "foo.pdf" in the first tab displaying the third page of
the document and "bar.pdf" in the second tab displaying the be-
ginning of the document.
The command
qpdfview --quiet foobar/*
opens all files that can be opened in the directory "foobar",
suppressing warning messages for files that cannot be opened.
The command
qpdfview --search foo bar.pdf
opens "bar.pdf" in the first tab and starts a search for "foo".
Subsequent execution of the commands
qpdfview --unique foo.pdf bar.pdf
and
qpdfview --unique foo.pdf#5
opens "foo.pdf" and "bar.pdf", then reloads "foo.pdf" and dis-
plays its fifth page.
Subsequent execution of the commands
qpdfview --unique foo.pdf
and
qpdfview bar.pdf
and
qpdfview --unique foo1.pdf bar1.pdf
opens "foo.pdf" in the first window, "bar.pdf" in a second win-
dow and then "foo1.pdf" and "bar1.pdf" in additional tabs in the
first window.
Subsequent execution of the commands
qpdfview --unique --instance a foo1.pdf bar1.pdf
and
qpdfview --unique --instance b foo2.pdf bar2.pdf
and
qpdfview --unique foo3.pdf bar3.pdf
and
qpdfview --unique --instance a foo1.pdf#4 bar4.pdf
opens "foo1.pdf" and "bar1.pdf" in the first window, "foo2.pdf"
and "bar2.pdf" in the second window, "foo3.pdf" and "bar3.pdf"
in the third window and then reloads "foo1.pdf" and displays its
fourth page and opens "bar4.pdf" in an additional tab in the
first window.
Subsequent execution of the commands
qpdfview --unique --instance a foo.pdf bar.pdf
and
qpdfview --unique --instance a --search foobar
opens "foo.pdf" and "bar.pdf" in a window and then starts a
search for the term "foobar" in the document in the active tab
(which is the last opened "bar.pdf").
The command
qpdfview --unique foobar.pdf#src:foobar.tex:42:0
opens or refreshes "foobar.pdf" jumping to and highlighting the
position that corresponds to line 42 of the source file "foo-
bar.tex".
The lines
[documentView]
autoRefreshTimeout=1250
[mainWindow]
styleSheet="QTabBar::tab { max-width: 150px; }"
will configure the auto-refresh timeout to 1250 milliseconds and
the change the maximum tab width to 150 pixel.
BUGS
If you find a bug, please report it at
"https://launchpad.net/qpdfview".
July 2012 QPDFVIEW(1)
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