February 15, 2025

Open a URL from a pdf file in xpdf

Xpdf man page stipulates to add something like this:

urlCommand       "netscape       -remote 'openURL(%s)'"

substituting netscape for the browser you use.

However, this only open a browser for me, with no URL in the nav bar.

Instead, I edited the line to:

urlCommand "abrowser '%s'"

to my .xpdfrc and that works.

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