When I click in a deep-link to open a PDF in a new window, the respective text is not highlighted

[exnunc]

Steps to reproduce

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Yes]

Expected result

When clicking on a deep-link to open a PDF in a new window the corresponding text should be highlighted.

Actual result

The text is not highlighted.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.3.7
Installer version: v1.1.16
Operating system: Windows 10 Home Single Language 10.0.22621
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

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Additional information

To reproduce this problem create a deep-link in a PDF of your choice then right-click on it and select open in a new window. The bug should be reproduced either by creating deep-links on markdown files or Canvas files.

[WhiteNoise]

thanks

[exnunc]

Thank you for taking my report into consideration.

I guess you might be interested in reading this other report I posted a few days ago: [Bug][Canvas][PDF] It's not possible to properly select text from PDF files that are added to a Canvas. It's impossible to create deep links from such files as well. There's also a weird behavior when I interact with the scrollbars

Also, could you please tell me if there’s a chance that the following suggestions can be implemented in the future:

Make it possible to click in deep links and scroll to the position of a linked text when the PDF is already open

Use case or problem The Obsidian team recently added support for deep linking in PDFs, which is great. However, the way this feature is currently implemented makes it necessary to open a new instance of a PDF file everytime I click in a deep link, which I think is a flaw. I believe it’d be more reasonable if there was a possibility to scroll to the text related to the link if the document is already open. Proposed solution Try to “mimic” the feature from LiquidText: [Lesson 3 on annota…

Suggestion to better integration between PDF reader and Canvas

When you select a text from a PDF and right-click the mouse there’s just two options: “Copy” and “Copy link to selection”. It’d be great if there was a third option called “Send to canvas”, so the selected text should appear inside a card in the open canvas and it’d be linked to the PDF as well (if there’s no open canvas Obsidian should ask the user to select one or create a new canvas). If it’s not possible, then there should be an option to copy both the text and the link together.