okular(1)

okular1

A universal document viewer

Usage

okular [Okular options] [URL]

Overview

okular is aimed to show documents in different formats.

Options

-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.

Arguments

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.

Feedback

On IRC, irc.libera.chat #okular or via email, [email protected] or on the web, <https://okular.kde.org/>.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13–Arch

--editor-cmd since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --find since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --print-and-exit since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

-- until Debian 9 (Stretch); --author until Debian 9 (Stretch); --help until Debian 9 (Stretch); --help-all until Debian 9 (Stretch); --help-kde until Debian 9 (Stretch); --help-qt until Debian 9 (Stretch); --license until Debian 9 (Stretch); --version until Debian 9 (Stretch); -v until Debian 9 (Stretch).

Author

Yuri Chornoivan <[email protected]>

Okular man page.

From okular 26.08.2-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.