What I’m trying to do
Drag and drop a pdf-file (created in Linux) into Obsidian to embed it.
PDF should render on the screen.
Actual result
Drag and drop does not work. Moving the pdf to the folder in the file manager works. Embedding the link works as well, link shows as valid, but the pdf does not render. It shows the pdf-frame i.e. the header with the menu points (thumbnail selector button, page indicator, zoom level etc.).
It just shows no pages at all.
environment information
- Fedora Linux 41 Kinoite
- Obsidian 1.7.7 flatpak
Things I have tried
additional background info
I have recently moved from Mac to Linux. And had not troubles with the flatpak version of Obsidian so far. My assumption is that this is not a Obsidian specific bug and has something to do with the OS, but I am hoping that someone might be able to point me in the wright direction.
troubleshooting done so far
- deactivated all community plugins
- checked old pdf-files that were created beforehand on the mac → PDF rendering works
- scanned documents on linux and saved as pdf, do not work
- permissions of the files are the same
- printed to pdf a webpage and moved the file to the vault folder (dragging and dropping into Obsidian does not work) → PDF rendering works
- opened a PDF-file that is not rendering with Okular and PDF Arranger and saved and replaced the file → issue persists
