org-inline-pdf

Org-inline-pdf enables inline PDF preview in Org buffers.

Installation

This works only with Org 9.4 or later. You need to have pdf2svg installed in exec-path. You will be able to install it using a package management system, such as Homebrew or APT.

# On macOS
brew install pdf2svg

# On Debian Linux
sudo apt install pdf2svg

You can install org-inline-pdf from MELPA. For manual installation, download org-inline-pdf.el into somewhere in your local directory and install it with M-x package-install-file.

Enable this feature in an Org buffer with M-x org-inline-pdf-mode. Add the following line to your init file to automatically enable the feature in newly opened Org buffers.

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'org-inline-pdf-mode)

Usage

You can just place links to PDF files using double brackets like [[./figs/plot.pdf]] in Org buffers. Linked PDF files will be displayed inline in the Org buffer by org-display-inline-images command.

Inline PDF in exported HTML file

This package also makes Org’s HTML exporter ox-html to embed linked PDF files as images using img tag. Note that inline PDF using img tag is not standard and will be rendered only in particular browsers. Safari.app is only the one I know.