If I open a PDF document inside evince (GNOME Document Viewer), how do I get the current page number using DBus?
using zathura I could get the page number using the following command:
busctl get-property --user org.pwmt.zathura.PID-1123767 \
/org/pwmt/zathura \
org.pwmt.zathura pagenumber
(I have used D-Feet to get the bus, object, and interface names).
However, when it comes to Gnome evince, I can't find any API to retrieve the current page number.
Are there any options to achieve that?
P.S: I am using evince 3.36.10
on Ubuntu 20.04
I think there is no way to retrieve that information using DBus. However, one can use GVFS (Gnome Virtual File System) to retrieve the metadata relevant to the page number:
gio info -a "metadata::evince::page" /path/to/the/pdf/file
This informations is updated whenever you scroll the page.
One important note (according to my tests) is that the document should not be under /tmp
directory as it appears that those metadata are not saved.