Re: Link type for pdf-tools annotations

[Ihor Radchenko]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Many times I need to "save" an annotation point in the pdf-tools
> annotations buffer. So I defined a new link type and the function to
> store it. The link is stored with the structure:
>
> [[pdf-annot:/path/to/file.pdf::annotation-date][file-name.pdf (annot. on p. 
> page-number)]]
>
> The link opens the PDF and jumps to the specific annotation.

You may also utilize `org-create-file-search-functions' and
`org-execute-file-search-functions' to make an ordinary file: links
works for the same purpose.

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