When using gs to convert, I do get 3 _different_ png files. Using docview, it's really weird. I hit 'g', and answer 'yes'. As I page through, it says pages 1/3 ... 3/3, but it displays _the same image for all 3 pages!!_. I tried repeatedly killing buffer, visiting, hitting 'g' to reload - nothing I tried seems to fix it. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Neal Becker writes: > > Hi Neal, > > > Also, these are not some special files from XeTeX. I'm using > > matplotlib, > > I've tried opening your sample PDF about a dozen times using emacs 24.3 > as well as the current emacs trunk, each version both with -Q and with > my customizations. In all cases, the PDF had 3 pages... > > > and it seems to happen something like 50% of the time. > > One thing that might explain parts of your problem: when you open the > file initially and then something fails and only the first page is > converted, then any subsequent opening of the file will only access the > single cached image without checking if the PDF has actually more pages > than there are images already. To force a reconversion, you can hit `g' > in the doc-view buffer. > > But still, if ghostscript or mupdf error when converting a document, you > should at least get some message like "ghostscript terminated with exit > code XX"... > > Not sure, but maybe it's a problem with your ghostscript or mupdf > version. What's the value of `doc-view-pdf->png-converter-function'? > If it is `doc-view-pdf->png-converter-mupdf', then try > > $ mudraw -o doc%d.png doc.pdf > > on the command line. > > If it is `doc-view-pdf->png-converter-ghostscript', then try > > $ gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -dTextAlphaBits=4 \ > -dBATCH -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dQUIET -sOutputFile=doc%d.png \ > doc.pdf > > Does that produce one image per page in the PDF, i.e., 3 images for your > sample file? > > Bye, > Tassilo >