joleaf / obsidian-better-pdf-2-plugin

Goal of this Plugin in to implement a native PDF handling workflow in Obsidian

Obsidian Better PDF 2 Plugin

Goal of this Plugin in to implement a native PDF handling workflow in Obsidian This version 2 was created as the original Obsidian Better PDF Plugin was not updated anymore.

Features

• Insert a single PDF Page inside Note
• Insert a list or range of pages into Obsidian Note
• Hyperlink to PDF
• Scale the size of PDF Pages to fit Note layout
• Rotate PDF
• Cutout PDF Parts

Demo

Syntax

as json string or yaml:

parameter	required	example
url	yes	myPDF.pdf or subfolder/myPDF.pdf or "[[MyFile.pdf]]"
link	optional (default = false)	true or false
page	optional (default = 1)	1 or [1, [3, 6], 8] where [3, 6] is an inclusive range of pages. page = 0 is an alias for the whole document
range	optional	[1, 3] Insert pages 1 to 3 (inclusive). Overwrites page.
scale	optional (default = 1.0)	0.5 for 50% size or 2.0 for 200% size
fit	optional (default = true)	true or false
rotation	optional (default = 0)	90 for 90deg or -90 -90deg or 180
rect	optional (default = [0,0,0,0])	offsetX, offsetY, sizeY, sizeX in Pixel

Example json (from the original Better PDF plugin)

```pdf
{
  "url" : "[[My_pdf.pdf]]",
  "page": 1
}
```

Example yaml (new syntax)

```pdf
url: [[My_pdf.pdf]]
page: 1
```

Integration

• JavaScript for Adobe Acrobat Pro and AppleScript for Skim for creating automatically the necessary Better PDF Plugin snippet

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obsidian-better-pdf-2-plugin's Issues

Bug with embedded PDF zooming out

Has anyone got such a bug when certain embedded PDF files in preview and edit modes automatically zooming out and slowly resizing until the very minimum?

Click on "Zoom in" button stops this weird process but it starts each time when I open the note again.

Update: Sorry, this seems to be issue of Obsidian itself, it;'s not related to your plugin. I confused natively linked pdf-file in a group of embeded documents with pdfs inserted with "better pdf 2 plugin". You may delete this thread now.

Plugin is dead in v1.4.16

Obsidian is unable to load this plugin in most recent release!

Issues after migration

BY @jorosy
MSzturc/obsidian-better-pdf-plugin#46 (comment)

some issues I found.

• The default Obsidian PDF View won't load any PDF while the plugin loaded.
• Images inside PDF won't render in this plugin, it seems happen to all PDF. Feel free to download the sample PDF..

Export to PDF doesn't show embedded pdf

When exporting a Note as PDF containing a pdf embedded with a code block, the block is skipped and the embedded pdf does not show up in the resulting exported pdf.

Here you can see obsidian shows the pdf correcly

Here is the code block defining what to show

But the exported pdf just skips over the pdf part

Does not work in live preview mode

The plugin does not work in live preview mode, just in the preview, obsidian 1.1.16

Install problems

Hi! After downloading and unzipping to the Obsidian plugins folder, when I click "Refresh," the plugin shows up in my Obsidian plugins page, but when I try to turn it on, I get the message "the plugin failed to load." Is there something special that I need to do to get it to run? My apologies if this is a silly question!