okular - Man Page

a universal document viewer

Examples (TL;DR)

Launch document viewer: okular
Open specific documents: okular path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...
Open a document at a specific page: okular [-p|--page] page_number path/to/file
Open a specific document in presentation mode: okular --presentation path/to/file
Open a specific document and start a print dialog: okular --print path/to/file
Open a document and search for a specific string: okular --find search_string path/to/file

okular [Okular options] [URL]

okular is aimed to show documents in different formats.

-p, --page number: Open a page with a given number in the document.
--presentation: Start the document in presentation mode.
--print: Start with print dialog.
--print-and-exit: Start with print dialog and exit after printing.
--unique: Unique instance control.
--noraise: Allows to prevent Okular window raising after the start.
--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.
--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.

URL: An address of the document to be opened. For PDF, can be given as document_name#named_destination where named_destination is a particular named destination embedded in the document.