I'm trying to call okular through dbus to open a document, and go to a particular line using its synctex functionality. This works fine if use the following in a command line:

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okular --unique file.pdf#src:138file.tex

where 138 is the line number in the tex file. If I try doing the same through dbus to interact with an already open okular session, this fails. For example

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 gdbus call --session --dest org.kde.okular --object-path /okular --method org.kde.okular.openDocument file.pdf#src:138file.tex

The okular window returns

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 Could not open file.pdf#src:138file.tex

There is another openDocument method in `/okular/okular_Shell_1` that takes two arguments: url and serializedOptions.

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 gdbus call --session --dest org.kde.okular --object-path /okular --method org.kde.okular.openDocument file.pdf "src:138file.tex"

And this returns

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 (false,)

Any ideas?