Bug 421778 - Add feature to navigate to next and previous documents in current folder
Summary: Add feature to navigate to next and previous documents in current folder
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Keywords:
: 425555 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2020-05-19 13:38 UTC by John Veness
Modified: 2023-09-03 09:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description John Veness 2020-05-19 13:38:26 UTC
I have a folder of several hundred PDFs, each only a page or two long. It would be very useful if there was a feature in Okular to advance to the next/previous document in the current folder, much like many image viewers allow.

Many thanks for this app!
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2020-05-19 17:48:59 UTC
Sincerely i don't see how this makes any sense in general.
Comment 2 John Veness 2020-05-19 19:56:30 UTC
Thanks for the reply. The Windows open-source PDF viewer Sumatra PDF has this feature (using ctrl+shift+left or right) and it works very well. It would be great to have this feature in Okular too, which I prefer for other reasons, including being able to set a "dark mode" using the Accessibility colours.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-06-10 21:21:23 UTC
I guess it makes sense if you regularly view or switch between multiple documents in the same folder.
Comment 4 John Veness 2021-07-09 10:20:20 UTC
*** Bug 425555 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Lukas 2021-07-09 11:53:56 UTC
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #1)
> Sincerely i don't see how this makes any sense in general.

As I mentioned in Bug 425555, this would make a lot of sense in a folder full of single-page plots. My workaround at the moment is to export each plot both to PDF and PNG so that I can look at the PNGs in sequence with an image viewer.
Comment 6 John Veness 2023-05-06 11:32:33 UTC
I suppose an alternative solution would be if an image viewer (e.g. Gwenview) could handle PDFs, single-page ones anyway. Except then I'd want to have a "dark mode" for PDFs in Gwenview, and the ability to highlight/copy text from PDFs etc., as in Okular!