Is there a way to create hyperlinks in obsidian, that redirect to a part of a pdf and can be named differently?

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I just saw this old post: Link to file with hyperlink / anchor / different name and realized, that I am looking for something, that goes one step further. Basically, as described in the title, I am looking for an option to create a hyperlink that redirects to a specific part of a pdf AND can be named differently?

Best I could do yet:

[this is how i name the hyperlink]([[pdf-link-to-selection-link]])

This produces the following:

this is how i name the hyperlink

The problem here is, that the link to the selection in the pdf doesn’t work anymore. It actually opens up a new note which obsidian partly names after the pdf…

Any tipps on that?

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The latest version of Obsidian offers that functionality out of the box.

Just open the PDF, select the section you want to refer to, right-click and choose the respective option. You then can paste the clipboard content in another note.

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Yes, but I still want to “rename” this link, which doesn’t work right now, at least not to my knowledge. Do you know what I mean?

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If you rename the link, you lose the connection to the selected PDF section.

You could use the alias portion of the wikilink to relable It. Does that meet your needs?

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Ah yes that works! sadly you have to rename it yourself which makes it a little bit unhandy especially when you want to label hundreds of words, but its something for now I guess :smiley: :slight_smile:

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