From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: covici@ccs.covici.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: problem with doc-view-mode in 24.1 Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:22:03 -0400 Message-ID: <16847.1344018123@ccs.covici.com> References: <6245.1344013265@ccs.covici.com> <873943n91y.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344018131 7666 80.91.229.3 (3 Aug 2012 18:22:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 18:22:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 03 20:22:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SxMVm-0007vC-7Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:22:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38073 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxMVl-00053e-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39543) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxMVj-00052E-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxMVi-0000nw-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from d-out-001.smtp25.com ([67.228.158.174]:44556) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SxMVi-0000nq-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-71-171-110-55.clppva.fios.verizon.net [71.171.110.55]) by d-out-001.smtp25.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q73IM4a4017002 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q73IM39A016848 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:22:04 -0400 In-reply-to: <873943n91y.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Comments: In-reply-to Tassilo Horn message dated "Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:07:37 +0200." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.3.1; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 24.1.1 X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 71.171.110.55 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-q73IM4a4017002 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 67.228.158.174 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152148 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn 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. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com