PDF link previews block the link on laptop-sized screens

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The problem

When trying to open PDF links on my 15" Macbook, the preview usually opens before I can click the link. Since the preview covers the entire link, this means I cannot click the link at all. This makes Obsidian useless for storying my PDFs, unless I reside to only reading PDFs in this preview window.

Proposed fix

Make sure link previews don’t block the link that is being previewed. Most importantly, a preview should not open over the point where the cursor triggered the preview. Any preview that does so is creating a truly awful user experience and it must be considered a bug.

Current workaround

Race against the preview and right-click before the preview opens. Works best on slower computers and massive PDFs that take a long time to open. Terrible solution either way.

Other reports

This feature request seems related but does not actually explain the problem. This is a bug that needs to be fixed.

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Please, post a screen recording of this in the help vault.

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The main problem I have is when the window is half-width of my laptop screen, exhibited in the later portion of the short video: 3.12 MB file on MEGA

I understand if you can’t fix this, in which case I will just keep previews disabled. But I really like the previews in every situation except on my laptop, and having my setting synced between devices has proved too valuable to give up.

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why don’t you just enable ctrl/cmd on hover in the page preview settings?

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I don’t know why but I didn’t realize this setting until now! This solves my problem. Sorry to bother you, and thanks for your help!

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