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Okular is a document viewer from KDE.

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"Information: Could not open the temporary file for saving" error in okular

I have an Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS and I'm trying to save a pdf file on okular. Problem is that it shows the error "Could not open the temporary file for saving" whenever I try to save it. This ...
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LaTex editor Kile does not work on Plasma 6

After upgrade to Plasma 6 Kile does not open as it does not find the Okular library anymore. The problem is that Kile has not been updated to use Plasma 6 yet and it still requires a bunch of Plasma 5 ...
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Are there any way to restore closed tabs in okular pdf viewer?

I am on an Arch Linux machine and okular is probably the best pdf viewer, except just one lacking feature which is restoring tabs when you reopen Okular. Now since there is no default option for doing ...
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How can I fix font issue with a PDF file?

I have a PDF file (this Mazda owner's manual to be precise) with font issues. Therefore I cannot search within. For instance, if you search for the word electric, Okular cannot find it (I've also ...
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How to force onboard stay on top of full screen Okular in LXDE?

Whenever Okular is full screen, the on screen keyboard Onboard goes behind it. How to pin onboard on top of full screen apps like Okular? I am using Debian LXDE.
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Open tex file corresponding to an opened pdf file

Suppose I have opened a pdf file (say /path/to/my/file.pdf generated from LaTeX) in evince and want to open the corresponding LaTeX source file (/path/to/my/file.tex) in my emacs editor, I click on ...
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Okular: Transform tab into separate window

I usually want my PDFs to be opened in a single instance of Okular in separate tabs instead of having each PDF be opened in an independent Okular window. Therefore, I have enabled Open new files in ...
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PDF reader with thumbnail preview in the opening dialog

Situation: I download lots of PDFs which have unhelpful file names, such as arXiv papers (thanks, 1807.03042.pdf). I'm often reading one of them in Okular and want to switch to another, say just to ...
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Maximum number of clients reachedqt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0

I am using Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon with kernel version 5.4.0-97-generic. I am facing recent issue when try to open okular from terminal or start-menu.. Maximum number of clients reachedqt.qpa.xcb: ...
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How does an app get or find toolbar icons?

On Manjaro Linux, I installed the Okular PDF viewer. On its toolbars are various icons (e.g. the "hand" icon used for scrolling with the mouse). My questions are: Are these icons part of ...
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How to create a self-signed certificate for Okular PDF

I am at a loss. I want to create a self-signed certificate to sign PDFs with Okular. I have not found any step-by-step directions that work. I tried creating and installing a certificate, but Okular ...
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Disable "speak text" in Okular

I have personally no need for this feature and have never activated it except by error. Sometimes I click that instead of copy and that unpleasing voice starts without any obvious way to make it stop....
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Cosmetic Glitches in Okular in Fedora 33 KDE

Okular shows "No Text" in place of "File" and other menu items in the top menu bar. See screenshot. I've tried removing and reinstalling the program to no success. What's causing ...
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Annotations not working in Okular (missing characters)

Yesterday, I upgraded to Fedora 34 from a F33 install. Today, while using Okular (KDE's PDF reader), I noticed that special characters (áéíóúç etc...) doesn't appear in annotations made within the PDF....
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Is there a way of creating a hook on Okular for copying text when highlighting it?

Currently, when I use Okular, I can either be in highlight mode or text selection mode, but not both at the same time, which is very annoying because, while reading, I often copy excerpts of the text ...
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