PDF Viewer

IntelliJ PDF Viewer plugin adds support for viewing PDF files in IntelliJ-based IDEs. This plugin uses recently integrated (2020.2) CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) browser to render PDF documents with PDF.js library.

Features

• Document navigation
• Integration with TeXiFy IDEA
• Auto-refresh on document change
• Text search
• Document scaling
• Thumbnail view
• Sections list
• Structure view
• Presentation mode
• Document information
• Pages spread (even/odd)
• Horizontal/vertical pages scroll directions
• Customizable toolbar
• Customizable dark mode
• File watcher

All the settings can be found in Settings | Other settings | PDF Viewer.

Shortcuts

• Move editor up or down: up and down arrow keys.
• Move editor right or left: right and left arrow keys.
• Move to the next page: when the whole width of the page is in view, the right and left arrow keys will navigate to the next and previous page.
• Zoom in: Ctrl + +, Ctrl + =.
• Zoom out: Ctrl + -
• Reset zoom: Ctrl + 0
• Enter presentation mode: Ctrl + Alt + p
• Inverse search (LaTeX): Ctrl + Left click (can be customized in Settings | Keymap to other mouse shortcuts)

Feature Notes

• Text search will work only in text-based documents. For example, it won't work in all-images documents (books scans).
• For the sections list or structure view to work documents should define sections list. Otherwise, sections view won't be active, and the structure view will be empty.
• Right-click on a pdf to open it in PDFium, the default Chrome PDF viewer. If you do not see a context menu, it may help to go to Help > Find Action, search for Registry, set pdf.viewer.use.jcef.osr.view to false, and restart. See IJPL-59459 for more details.
• To view pdfs in a Code With Me session, you may need to install the PDF viewer plugin (0.17.0 or later) in the client as well. This feature is still expirimental, for more info see CWM-1199.
• When you have the pdf open in a separate window and you want inverse search to open the LaTeX file in the main window when it is not open yet, go to Settings > Advanced settings and enable "Open declaration source called from a detached window in the main IDE window"
• You only need to enable the file watcher global setting if you are using some program to automatically update the pdf which is running in the terminal (or at least outside the IDE), since IntelliJ would not be triggered to look for file system changes. You do not need this setting when using TeXiFy.

Use cases

• Writing latex documents
• Split-view code and documentation
• Presentations with live-coding
• ...

Providing Feedback

If you want to support PDF Viewer development, just give a star on GitHub or write a review on the marketplace page.

In case you encountered any bugs, feel free to create an issue.