Thursday, August 22, 2019

QuickTip: Toggling to Previous View in PDF Readers:

I use Preview (on my Mac laptop) and Foxit Reader (on my Linux Desktop) to read PDFs.

While reading papers, I often find myself clicking on links to citations. This takes me to the reference section. After looking up the citation, I like to go back to the previous location on the paper (right before clicking on the link).

How to go back to the "previous view" isn't well documented.

In Preview, the short cut is "Cmd + [" and "Cmd + ]".

In Foxit Reader for Linux (v2.4 and above) the short cut is "Alt + Left Arrow" and "Alt + Right Arrow", respectively.