08-07-2023 01:49 PM
It would be useful to have keyboard shortcuts for the buttons that control the sidebar that displays the content outline in the PDF Viewer. As far as I know, no such shortcuts exist. I like to save space, but I am not a fan of presentation mode so I find myself constantly clicking the toggle button to show/hide the sidebar. Also, for some reason many of my pdfs open with the content outline fully expanded. For documents with a lot of headings and sub-headings, this can make scrolling to a specific heading in the side bar a pain in the ass. So I am also frequently clicking the content outline toggle button. One last shortcut that would be helpful would be one that focuses/highlights the first heading directly, then you could just navigate with the keys from there to each subsequent heading. The only way I know to do this currently is to hit the tab button about 20 times to cycle the focus through all of the buttons/fields that come before the sidebar.
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08-14-2023 09:56 AM
Maybe you saw it already, but there was a reply that F4 opens/closes the sidebar, and also a reference to the option to file a bug with Mozilla, since Mozilla can and does modify the viewer when building it into Firefox.
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/16816#issuecomment-1672703414
08-09-2023 06:56 PM
I added this to the Issues list for the pdf.js project, which is the web app version of the view that gets built into Firefox:
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/16816
08-14-2023 09:56 AM
Maybe you saw it already, but there was a reply that F4 opens/closes the sidebar, and also a reference to the option to file a bug with Mozilla, since Mozilla can and does modify the viewer when building it into Firefox.
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/16816#issuecomment-1672703414
10-16-2023 11:36 AM - edited 10-16-2023 11:39 AM
F4 doesn't work for me. Actually most of my Function keys don't do anything. Could be a Linux thing though. Is there any setting or property in the about:config that controls the pdf outline? Also, why did that github post emphasize the built-in pdf viewer? Is the pdf viewer that is built-in to the browser not the one and only viewer firefox uses to read pdfs?
10-10-2023 02:34 PM
I use the ad-hoc text insertion tool A LOT.
Would be great to add a shortcut to activate that tool, like there already is for the text selection and hand tools.