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Bug 611619 - Highlight search terms when opening a PDF file in evince with --find
Highlight search terms when opening a PDF file in evince with --find
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-02 16:21 UTC by Alexander Hunziker
Modified: 2014-03-25 23:20 UTC
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Description Alexander Hunziker 2010-03-02 16:21:19 UTC 
If I search for a term using t-s-t and get a pdf file as a result, I have to search for that term again once I have the file open, using the search function of the PDF viewer.

Evince has a command line parameter --find=STRING which makes it search the file for a given string. Could t-s-t call evince with that command line parameter, with the first search term (if there are several) as an argument?
Comment 1 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe 2010-03-02 16:49:00 UTC 
Interesting use-case. I also don't like double-search, just not sure which approach is elegant enough.
Comment 2 Ivan Frade 2010-03-02 17:14:43 UTC 
It sounds like a nice feature, but to implementa this we need a command line parameter in evince to indicate what words to highlight.

Moving bug to evince.
Comment 3 Florian Moretz 2013-02-19 05:56:42 UTC 
Just for reference: Recoll in its most recent version is capable of this. Terms are passed to evince with the --find=STRING switch. Search has to be engaged manually after evince is started for the term to be found. See here for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeeIBP8PbGE
Comment 4 giselle 2014-03-25 23:12:23 UTC 
Tested with evince 3.8.3 and the text is highlighted when opening a pdf with --find. The bug seems fixed and the issue can be closed.
Comment 5 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2014-03-25 23:20:40 UTC 
Right, this seems to be working. I am closing this bug as obsoletes.