Re: problem with doc-view-mode in 24.1

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:

> covici@ccs.covici.com writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > Hi.  I am having a couple of problems with doc-view in 24.1.  In 23.x,
> > when I find a .pdf, doc-view was automatically active, now I have to
> > type doc-view-mode to get it.  Any hook I can use to do this
> > automatically?
> 
> It should be active for PDF files by default.  With emacs 24.1, doing
> 
>   $ emacs -Q some/doc.pdf
> 
> opens the pdf with doc-view.
I am within emacs and use c-x c-f  rather than starting from scratch.

> 
> > However, the worst problem is that I often get the following message
> > when trying to use doc-view-mode:
> > DocView: process pdf->txt changed status to killed.
> 
> Does
> 
>   $ pdftotext -raw doc.pdf doc.txt
> 
> on the command line work, or does it crash?
It works fine.

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