
Though Okular may most often be started from the KDE program menu, or a desktop icon, it can also be opened at the command line prompt of a terminal window. There are a few useful options that are available when doing this.
By specifying the path and name of a particular file the user can have Okular open that file immediately upon startup. This option might look something like the following:
%
okular
/home/myhome/docs/mydoc.pdf
Note
For PDF documents, the name can be given as document_name
#named_destination
where named_destination
is a particular named destination embedded in the document.
The following command line help options are available
okular
-p --page
number
Open a page with a given number in the document. Also available through
okular
-p
number
okular
--presentation
Start the document in presentation mode.
okular
--print
Start with print dialog.
okular
--print-and-exit
Start with print dialog and exit after printing.
okular
--unique
Unique instance control.
okular
--noraise
Allows to prevent Okular window raising after the start.
okular
--find
string
Tries to find and highlight a given string in the document. Only works if just one document is given as an argument of the
okular
command.okular
--editor-cmd
string
Sets the external editor command. You cannot set the editor command in an already running Okular instance. Please note that
--unique
is not supported when setting the editor command at the commandline.