Re: Org mode links: Open a PDF file at a given page and highlight a given string

[AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2022, 10:18:41 CET schrieb Ihor Radchenko:
> Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> >> I think that it is a very good idea for Org core to support search terms
> >> in file links that are handled by Free Software.
> > 
> > Maybe I misunderstand something, but your stress on Free Software here
> > surprised me. I did not mention explicitly any proprietary application
> > such as Adobe Reader. On the other hand support of Chromium (that is
> > free) unavoidably assumes Google Chrome and likely MS Edge with other
> > derived products with same customization as chromium vs.
> > chromium-browser command name discrepancy in Linux distros.
> 
> I was referring to GPL-compatible software.
> If we have better integration with Libre/Free Software, it is suitable
> for Org core. IMHO.

[...]

> > I am considering a single package, something like org-pdfviewer, that
> > has definitions for all popular viewers: evince, okular, firefox,
> > chromium, etc. I believed that user should explicitly configure
> > preferred viewer by either adding an entry with supplied function to
> > `org-file-apps' or this package has its own defcustoms and the entry
> > injected to some variable as you suggested in
> > Ihor Radchenko. Re: [PATCH v2] org.el: Fix percent substitutions in
> > `org-open-file' Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:46:41 +0800.
> > https://list.orgmode.org/875yi2xtj2.fsf@localhost
> > 
> > The point of defcustoms in the package instead of (or in addition to)
> > `org-file-apps' is that evince and okular support more formats than PDF.
> 
> I understand your idea. What I am suggesting is to implement support for
> a subset of popular viewers (the Libre ones) and add it to Org core.
> Support for non-Libre viewers could be added ad third-party packages
> based on the Org core implementation.
> 


Has this been done? I'm struggeling (again), how to link to a certain page of 
a PDF, being opened in okular. 

./link/xyz.pdf::123 does not open the pdf at p. 123