Okular: Follow This Link -> Open Linked Document in New Tab

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Hey y’all,

I’m trying to figure out the behavior in Okular. I have a reference car manual with +2000 pages across 35+ files. The car manual links to procedures across multiple files, and following one link stops me from returning to the original file I was working within.

Information:

  1. I have a folder with a collection of PDF files.
  2. These PDF files have links to Table of Contents within other PDF files within the folder.
  3. These PDF files have links to sections within their own file.
  4. These PDF files have links to sections within other PDF files within the folder.

Behaviors:

  1. I can open as many files as I want into new tabs.
  2. I cannot open a file from a PDF link into a new tab.
  3. Opening a file through a link opens this file within the same tab.
  4. I cannot return to the previous file with “Back” or “Previous Page”.
  5. You can access the link by right-clicking an annotation, then selecting “follow this link”

Questions:

  1. Is there currently a way to open the link into a new tab or window?
  2. Are there ways of grabbing that link data to script opening a new instance / tab? (i.e. the annotated link sends the link information to a script to open the file in a new tab)? Would this be some kind of custom build package to include such a script?

Thanks in advance for your help / information / time.