Better PDF – Obsidian Plugin · Obsidian Stats

by MSzturc

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Description

Category: Note Enhancements

#pdf #insert #scale #rotate #cut-out

The Better PDF plugin allows you to seamlessly integrate PDF files into your Obsidian notes. With this plugin, you can insert a single page or a range of pages from a PDF file directly into your note. You can also scale the size of the PDF pages to fit your note layout and rotate them as needed. Additionally, you can hyperlink to PDF files and even cut out specific parts of the PDF. The plugin provides a flexible syntax for inserting PDF content, making it easy to customize your notes with PDFs.

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Latest Version

4 years ago

Changelog

What's Changed

Add base scale multiplier to viewport based on actual canvas width by @batman-nair in https://github.com/MSzturc/obsidian-better-pdf-plugin/pull/31
Implement "Whole Document" with Page 0 as alias by @m0rtis0 in https://github.com/MSzturc/obsidian-better-pdf-plugin/pull/29
Added support for relative path by @wxxedu in https://github.com/MSzturc/obsidian-better-pdf-plugin/pull/17

New Contributors

@batman-nair made their first contribution in https://github.com/MSzturc/obsidian-better-pdf-plugin/pull/31
@m0rtis0 made their first contribution in https://github.com/MSzturc/obsidian-better-pdf-plugin/pull/29
@wxxedu made their first contribution in https://github.com/MSzturc/obsidian-better-pdf-plugin/pull/17

Full Changelog: https://github.com/MSzturc/obsidian-better-pdf-plugin/compare/1.3.0...1.4.0

See all version on GitHub

README file from

Obsidian Better PDF Plugin

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

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

Sample

Syntax

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

Integration

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

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