[FR] Excalidraw - PDF++ deep linking support about obsidian-pdf-plus

[RyotaUshio]

I have never cared about the compatibility with Excalidraw so far, but it's an interesting direction.
I believe some decent level of integration cannot be achieved without the help of zsviczian, though.

it s unable to deep linking in excalidraw

What exactly do you mean here?

I quickly tested, and if I paste a link to a text selection into an Excalidraw canvas and save the change, the text was successfully highlighted:

Screen.Recording.2024-04-04.at.0.19.01.mov

If I click on the link, I can jump to the exact location of the text selection (it opens the same PDF file in a new tab, which is not great, but I cannot do anything since it's governed by Excalidraw, not PDF++).

Also, if I cmd+hover over the highlight, I can preview the link in the Excalidraw file:

Screen.Recording.2024-04-04.at.0.22.32.mov

Double-clicking it can take me to the location of the link in the Excalidraw file:

Screen.Recording.2024-04-04.at.0.23.08.mov

The only thing I found weird is that Excalidraw sometimes, not always, displays the notification "I could not find a matching text element" when I do the same thing with the Excalidraw file already opened:

Screen.Recording.2024-04-04.at.0.27.57.mov

[Dennyyusuf]

Yes I believe there is something need to be tweaked at Excalidraw side..
For me when I annotate more than one highlight then when I click at excalidraw it can't pinpoint the location of the highlight inside the pdf

Screen.Recording.2024-04-04.at.06.56.33_resized.mp4

Thansks for your time!

[Rex-Diego]

I find when using Excalidraw in a new window, the backlink can bring you back to PDF++ in another window in a correct way. Another benefit is that both plugins will be faster than they stay in the same window.

[Dennyyusuf]

I find when using Excalidraw in a new window, the backlink can bring you back to PDF++ in another window in a correct way. Another benefit is that both plugins will be faster than they stay in the same window.

Hmm weird, I am still unable to get this deep linking even when I followed your direction.