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39.1 DocView Navigation ¶

In DocView mode, you can scroll the current page using the usual Emacs movement keys: C-p, C-n, C-b, C-f, and the arrow keys.

By default, the line-motion keys C-p and C-n stop scrolling at the beginning and end of the current page, respectively. However, if you change the variable doc-view-continuous to a non-nil value, then C-p displays the previous page if you are already at the beginning of the current page, and C-n displays the next page if you are at the end of the current page.

You can also display the next page by typing n, PageDown, next or C-x ] (doc-view-next-page). To display the previous page, type p, PageUp, prior or C-x [ (doc-view-previous-page).

SPC (doc-view-scroll-up-or-next-page) is a convenient way to advance through the document. It scrolls within the current page or advances to the next. DEL moves backwards in a similar way (doc-view-scroll-down-or-previous-page).

To go to the first page, type M-< (doc-view-first-page); to go to the last one, type M-> (doc-view-last-page). To jump to a page by its number, type M-g M-g or M-g g (doc-view-goto-page).

You can enlarge or shrink the document with + (doc-view-enlarge) and - (doc-view-shrink). By default, these commands just rescale the already-rendered image. If you instead want the image to be re-rendered at the new size, set doc-view-scale-internally to nil. To specify the default size for DocView, customize the variable doc-view-resolution.

DocView can generate an outline menu for PDF and DjVu documents using the mutool and the djvused programs, respectively, when they are available. The outline for Open Document Format files as used by OpenOffice and LibreOffice are also generated using the mutool after they are converted to PDF. This uses the imenu facility (see Imenu). You can customize how the imenu items for this outline are formatted and displayed using the variables doc-view-imenu-format and doc-view-imenu-flatten. The filename of the djvused program can be customized by changing the doc-view-djvused-program user option.

You can save the current page to a register with m (doc-view-page-to-register) (see Registers). However, these registers are not shared across buffers and stay local to the DocView buffer. You can later jump to the saved page with ' (doc-view-jump-to-register).