As a user, I found myself frustrated when the auto-focus feature worked counter-intuitively.
Perhaps adding this option might solve this problem.

Related: #44

If you double-click on a highlighted area in the PDF, it jumps to the correct location in the annotations file. However, the problem is that the tab with the note file does not get focused. Because the tab with the note file is not focused, you cannot immediately edit or delete the annotation. It would be better if, upon double-clicking on a highlight in the PDF, the note file in the other tab is focused so that you can edit or delete the annotation right away.

Would it be possible to add a setting that allows to open the annotation note in the right sidebar when clicking on a highlight, which corresponding note is not opened yet?
Having the annotation notes in the sidebar is very convenient when working on small laptop screens because this way they can be expanded an collapsed quickly.

When we make an annotation in Zotero's PDF viewer, we can comment on that annotation directly in the comment card (the comment in the left panel, not the entry comment in the right panel).

By using this plugin, we could distribute the annotation throughout the vault, and we might also take some comments around that annotation.

since this plugin could display the backlink for a specific pdf page, is it possible to display more context when triggering the context button in the backlink panel (for now this button doesn't affect anything), like the behaviour in the markdown file?

Currently I use three monitors, there is no such requirement for this feature actually, I could just display multiple windows at the same time, one for pdf, one for markdown.
It is also a quality of life improvement, I just wonder if there is a way to make the backlink view better, more like zotero or zotlit's annotation view.

annotation with handwriting in pdf and pen support

If I highlight a text passage (copy as quote format) with the marker and then execute the "copy & auto-paste link" command with the hotkey, copy formats like "copy as quote" often result in wrong focusing in the annotation tab. The text input cursor (the blinking cursor while typing) jumps around inside the copied text selection or above.
You can reproduce it by creating several links with the copy as quote format, but every time use the copy & auto-paste command. While creating the links look at the open annotation file in the other tab: It doesn't synchronize with the pasted links. The focus in the annotation tab keeps on the first pasted link, and doesn't move to the bottom of the tab where new links are pasted.

Is there a way for passing the selected hightlight color to the callout which is created when pasting the selection to my annotation note? That way the colors would match in the pdf and the annotation note and it would be easier for me to get them visually in line. It would be great to have the automatically colored callouts because when highlighting, the colors have distinct meanings for me and it would make reading my annotation note even more convenient to have this logic also applied in the callouts.

Right now I already love the view of callouts holding the annotations and my thoughts. It is very similar to the zotero view and would become even better with the automatic coloring functionality.

This plugin really amazes me and is my dream plugin! However, I feel very laggy while using it. I have an idea in the labeling of rectangular areas if it can be done by screenshot and can generate links like zotero's. Of course, I'm not familiar with programming, it's just a whim, thank you very much for developing this plugin!

The only PDF that I've encountered this problem so far is the PDF spec: https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf

I'm not 100% sure that it's due to the document size, but I reckon so.

When a link is copied and pasted into a note, the link to the PDF (the clickable link with title+page for example) is only visible if "wiki-links" is enabled in the obsidian settings.

hi, I just wonder if there any possible to update the selection area, after initially pasting the quote to the markdown file

it's two separate problems actually

• update the backlink
• update the quoted text with newly selected

I've noticed that the link to the annotation contains the selection area, like below

#page=60&selection=100,8,102,65

simply envision this, implementing the resize may depend too much on obsidian internals, and may take too much effort.

since now you can manage backlinks, just updating the backlinks may be more approachable. if we could update the selection query params in links, we can somehow emulate such resize behavior

the second problem may not be so easy, and if we use embedded with margin, maybe it is not necessary to implement this. but I am somehow concerned about the performance if you embed too many PDF viewer instances in tabs, especially when you open dozens of tabs.

the way how logseq implements this feature may give an inspiration. it establishes an external identifier manager, in which the annotation and the quoted are both linked to that identifier, once the annotation changes, the corresponding quoted text will also get updated. but this will also need too much effort.

by the way, is there any other way I could sponsor you? Neither GitHub sponsor nor buymeacoffee support PayPal, while I don't have any bank card which I can use directly on these websites

it's very disturbing to resize the sidebar whenever open a new PDF file, i found a way to automatically adjust the width of the sidebar

.pdf-content-container.node-insert-event.sidebarOpen {
    --sidebar-width: 330px;
}

we could provide a setting option to set the width, this may help others who suffering the same pain

I noticed that the name "PDF++" is very hard to search. The suffix "++" is often just ignored.
Enclosing it with double quotes seems to have no effect.

So it might be nice to consider renaming this plugin.

If you have any ideas about a better alternative name for this plugin, please share them here!

Requirements:

• Keep it short & simple.
• PDF++ is not just about annotation. It adds many small QOL improvements to the native viewer. So I don't want to give it a name that suggests only its annotation capability.

This bug doesn't happen for text selection embeds.

This feature would be amazing: If a text is highlighted with a marker, the text will be automatically inserted in the corresponding annotation note file. This corresponding annotation file is glued to the PDF file. So when opening the PDF, the note with the glued annotations will open as well in an adjacent pane.

設定によると，command+hover によって，PDFから引用部分のnoteが開かれる筈ですが，hover editor プラグインを使っていくと，hover 画面が出て，tab や new window では開かれません。
これは，キーがバッティングしているだと思いますが，そこで，この設定を，command+hover 以外にして欲しいです(ctr+hoverなど)。
また，ダブルクリックすると，新しいタブで必ず開かれますが，そうすると並べて見られないので，これも設定で変更できるようにして欲しいです。

よろしくご検討ください。

When a page link is clicked in the annotation file tab, the text in the PDF tab is focused but highlighted again with the yellow color (the yellow color is only temporary). However, the problem now is that if you have highlighted your text in the PDF with the green color and then click on a page link in the annotation file, the green color mixes with the yellow color, making it difficult to read and not looking good. Therefore, an additional option would be good: that PDF++ does not display any additional highlight when clicking on a page link.

If the page layout is set to double page in the pdf viewer, it also shows double page in the embed, which makes it very difficult to read. Is it possible to set a page layout in the embed that is independent of the main pdf viewer?

Currently, PDF++ can generate a markdown list consisting of links to each outline item (i.e. beginning of each section or chapter) with the command "Copy PDF outline as markdown list", like so

- [[file.pdf#page=1&offset=...]]
    - [[file.pdf#page=2&offset=...]]
    - [[file.pdf#page=3&offset=...]]
- [[file.pdf#page=5&offset=...]]

The problem is that this link is invisible in PDF viewer, unlike a link to text selection or an annotation.
If they were, we would be able to more easily navigate back and forth between a PDF page and the corresponding markdown file.

Selecting a text with the marker > right click > add bookmark. When "add bookmark" is clicked from this context menu, it creates a special page link in the annotation file. Maybe this link is then named "Bookmark:" And after this word "Bookmark:" the user can name this bookmark, for example "Bookmark: Chapter 3".

e.g. ![[file.pdf#page=1&selection=0,1,2,3|no highlight]]

This can be problematic for accessibility reasons, but it should be fine as long as we use it for our private notes only.

What should it look like?

Awsome plugin, great work!

Would it be possible to show the custom color palette actions also in the right click menu, that pops up, when I right click the selected text? Now, only the defualt options pop up so I have to go back and select my custom action in the top menu if I need one of theese.

Thank you for the great plugin and your great work on it!

In the PDF++ settings a new setting for markers could be introduced: The highlight markers could be bound to specific custom copy formats. For example I have bound the "copy as quote" format to the blue color. Everytime when I switch the markers in the PDF viewer, the custom copy formats switches automatically to the format that is bound to this marker color. Advantage would be here, that you can switch the custom copy format just by changing the markers color in the PDF viewer. For example when the green marker is selected, all my links will have the "bookmark" custom copy format. And if I select the blue color marker, all my links that I assign with that color will have the "Copy as quote" copy format.

When the embed is rendered after opening the left sidebar in the pdf viewer, it also appears in the embed. If the embed is trimmed, the option to turn off the left bar is not accessible. Is it possible to add a feature to never show left sidebar in the embed?

• Set the PageLabels entry of the document catalog
• Take care of page labels number dictionary updates when adding/inserting/removing/merging/extracting pages

is it possible to directly drag the text in pdf to the markdown file, then generate a corresponding quote with a backlink?

Hey,
so I did some more testing and the behaviour was consistent in the sandbox vault as well in my productive vault:

• Opening the hover editor using auto focus opens a new hover editor, which is the command to be carried out when no corresponding md file can be found. However even if I had a specific file open and pasted before the hover editor sill only opens a new window instead of the last active and pasted one
• This problem does not turn up when I have my note open in the sidebar. Then everything workes like a charm

Here are the debug logs, hope they help. Let me know if I can do further testing for you.

SYSTEM INFO: Obsidian version: v1.5.3 Installer version: v1.5.3 Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19045 Login status: not logged in Insider build toggle: off Live preview: on Base theme: dark Community theme: Atom v0.0.0 Snippets enabled: 4 Restricted mode: off Plugins installed: 25 Plugins enabled: 25 1: Kanban v1.5.3 2: Tag Wrangler v0.6.1 3: ProZen v0.3 4: Iconize v2.10.0 5: Projects v1.17.1 6: Paste image rename v1.6.1 7: Dataview v0.5.64 8: Citations v0.4.5 9: QuickAdd v1.7.0 10: Git v2.23.2 11: Pandoc Reference List v2.0.25 12: Pandoc Plugin v0.4.1 13: Callout Manager v1.0.1 14: Editor Syntax Highlight v0.1.3 15: BRAT v0.8.4 16: PDF++ v0.35.21 17: Style Settings v1.0.7 18: Annotator v0.2.11 19: Hotkey Helper v0.3.18 20: Zotero Integration v3.1.7 21: Better Search Views v0.2.2 22: BibNotes Formatter v0.9.219 23: Omnisearch v1.21.1 24: Text Extractor v0.5.1 25: Hover Editor v0.11.17

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Originally posted by @programlich in #44 (comment)

PDF++ adds some controllers like color icons and dropdowns in PDF toolbars, but the current one is not very easy to use.
For example, I often want easier access to the copy format menu than the color selector.

So it would be a nice idea to allow several choices of the UI.

Redefine a color palette (or a PDF++ toolbar component) as anything that satisfies the following:

• It has a state represented by

  interface ColorPaletteState {
      colorName: string | null; // or colorIndex: number
      actionIndex: number; // index of a custom copy format (or color palette action)
      displayTextFormatIndex: number;
      writeFile: boolean;
      selectToCopy: boolean;
      autoPaste: boolean;
  }

• It supports getState(): ColorPaletteState; and setState(state: ColorPaletteState): void;

Provide several classes that implement the above requirements, and leave the choice to the user.

Unfortunately, I don't have great experience in UI coding so I will welcome PRs adding new UI choices or improving the existing one.

Hi

Thank you for this plugin! It is something that logseq has that I have been missing in obsidian.

But, would it be possible to add a feature so that wikilinks to PDFs (when pressed without any modifier keys) automatically open the PDF in a split view to the left or right? This would help with the muscle memory coming from logseq.

Also, for the option How to open markdown file with ctrl+hover when there is no open markdown file, would it be possible to add the option Split left?

Thank you!

Edit: To add more context, I am aware of modifier keys. What I would like to do is overriding the default opening behavior only for links to PDFs. So that I don't have to press the modifier keys when it comes to links to PDFs.

I don't know why this works when the feature is turned off. Possibly a bug?

Can you add pane options to open pdfs as in "How to open markdown file" setting?

First of all, thank you for making this useful plugin.

Some PDFs are scanned versions, is there any chance to support partial embedding or highlighting?

Just like

[[xxx.pdf#page=2&area=x1,x2,y1,y2]]

i.e. when the number tree defined in the PageLabels entry of the document catalog has the Kids entry in its dictionary, PDF++ fails to process the page labels.

Need to update this:

Interesting: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/make-a-better-pdf-annotation-in-canvas/61298

Currently, PDF++ does not support Canvas because internal links in canvas files are not indexed by Obsidian.
However, it would be possible to highlight backlinks from the same canvas file that the PDF viewer is embedded in.

We could also add a new option such as "create a card from text selection" in Canvas.

After changing some of the Custom color palette actions the PDFs won't open anymore, its just a blank tab.

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},
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},
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"name": "Callout",
"template": "- {{text}}\n- [!{{calloutType}}|{{colorName}}] {{linkWithDisplay}}\n\n"
},
{
"name": "Quote in callout",
"template": "> [!{{calloutType}}|{{colorName}}] {{linkWithDisplay}}\n> > {{text}}\n> \n> "
},
{
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}

e.g. [[file.pdf#page=<PAGE>]]. The same applies to the hotkey command as well.

I was wondering whether you would consider storing the reading progress of each file that is viewed, rather than storing the progress of only the current file viewed?

Currently, I rely on Omnivore for reading longer pdfs from beginning to end, because Obsidian tends to lose track of my reading progress when I'm reading across several sessions and/or devices. With this plugin recording the reading progress of each pdf, Obsidian may be able to replace this functionality of Omnivore.

Originally posted by @callumalpass in RyotaUshio/obsidian-view-sync#1 (comment)

That would be a nice feature to have. It would be better handled by PDF++ rather than this plugin, though.
What I have in mind for now is:

1. Each device records the latest progress (page, zoom level etc) and a timestamp in its own dedicated file like pdf-progress-macbook.json.
2. When opening a PDF file, PDF++ looks up the latest progress in the file, then sets the page number and so on accordingly.

This way, we will be able to record progress in each device. In addition, we could add an option like "share progress across devices" and specify which file to read another device's progress from (e.g. pdf-progress-ipad.json).

If this option is enabled, PDF++ compares the timestamps from all the devices and follows the latest one.

Hi, thanks for you effort into this wonderful pulgin!
And a little polishment will definitely make it better.
I find that "hightlight" is only applicable when I copy the text into my note
but sometimes i just want to hightlight without citing or copying content into my note.

if we directly set obsidian as the default app for PDF, when we open the PDF, we will redirected to the vault select panel in fact,

I found a way to use the URI scheme, but this needs extra setup

I create a Python file and packaged it as a .exe file, which simply transfers the open/start CLI command trigger by Zotero, to an obsidian open file scheme

file_path = sys.argv[1]

# url encode
url_file_path = urllib.parse.quote(file_path)

# open by URL scheme
os.system(f"start obsidian://open?path={url_file_path}")

I just wonder if there is any better method to accomplish this behavior, since now with this plugin, we could use obsidian as the viewer and annotator, but we still need the capability Zotero provided to manage literature.

Patch renderAnnotationPopup method of PDFViewerChild. The popup element can be accessed as child.activeAnnotationPopupEl

Why is it that when I select copy embed of selection, the link after pasting is an embed of the whole PDF?

It should be a bug!
Change the setting to the one shown below and it works fine, before it was {{link}}.

But if I right click there are 2 popups now. The one from obsidian itself with layered on top saying "copy ctrl+c", and your new right context menu. If I right click and press ESC, the obsidian context menu will disappear and now hovering color is working over your new context menu.

Originally posted by @N3C2L in #28 (comment)

This happens only for PDF tabs already loaded when PDF++ gets enabled.
Reopening tabs fixes it.

First of all thanks!!
I never really used PDF in obsmd, but it's now changing and that in part of PDF++.
I just scrolled trough the settings and it's crazy how big this is. Props!

One thing I would find really useful, is to extract all highlights of a PDF and be able to paste them in a .md file, with the backlinks to the pdf.
I think it's something a lot of people could find helpful. :)

When I use {{file.basename}}, {{page}}/{{pageCount}}, "{{selection}}" or {{file.basename}} as Display text format, I get the following errors

I don't know if it's possible, but this function would be awesome: When executed, the annotations in the markdown file will be sorted by page number. This would be helpful if the annotations are mixed up from different chapters on different pages, and you are using only one annotation markdown file.