ebook-viewer - ebook-viewer

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       Kovid Goyal

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       Kovid Goyal

7.26.0                                          February 14, 2025                                EBOOK-VIEWER(1)

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       ebook-viewer - ebook-viewer

          ebook-viewer [options] file

       View an e-book.

       Whenever  you pass arguments to ebook-viewer that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation
       marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"

[Options]

--continue
Continue reading the last opened book

--detach
Detach from the controlling terminal, if any (Linux only)

--force-reload
Force reload of all opened books

--full-screen,--fullscreen,-f
If specified, the E-book viewer window will try to open full screen when started.

--help,-h
show this help message and exit

--new-instance
Open a new viewer window even when the option to use only a single viewer window is set

--open-at
The position at which to open the specified book. The position is a location or position you can
get by using the Go to->Location action in the viewer controls. Alternately, you can use the form
toc:something and it will open at the location of the first Table of Contents entry that contains
the string "something". The form toc-href:something will match the href (internal link
destination) of toc nodes. The matching is exact. If you want to match a substring, use the form
toc-href-contains:something. The form ref:something will use Reference mode references. The form
search:something will search for something after opening the book. The form regex:something will
search for the regular expression something after opening the book.

--raise-window
If specified, the E-book viewer window will try to come to the front when started.

--version
show program's version number and exit