General ⇒ Opening a PDF File in a new Viewer Window

[_Joe_]

Hello all,
I'm working on a Beamer presentation and my bibliography consists of locally stored PDF files. I want to set things up so that my bibliography items are hyperlinks that, when clicked, would open the reference they name on a certain page. I can already achieve this with a line like:

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\href{targetfile.pdf\#.target_page_number}{Reference 1}

With the \href command used from the hyperref package.
The problem is, this command opens the reference in the same instance of the PDF viewer thereby closing my Beamer presentation.
I would like to somehow cause this link to open the target PDF file in a new instance of the PDF viewer.
Is this an issue of configuring the viewer (I'm using Okular) or should I add something to my source code?

[_Joe_]

Hello? Anyone?
Any help would be appreciated. I'm not sure if an MWE is needed in this case. If it would help someone answer, please tell me and I'll post one.

[_Joe_]

I realized that this is a viewer issue. Adobe Reader doesn't have this issue and it turns out that Okular doesn't have an "Open in a new window" feature.

[nep]

Hi Joe, Hi all,

it's an old post but I had the same problem and it deserves an answer.

The \hypersetup gives you the option to set

\hypersetup{
    pdfnewwindow=true,      % links in new PDF window
    % more options 
}

(https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyp ... Local_file)

It worked for me (using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC) and hopefully will be helpful to some.
Best regards