From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc-view-current-slice only used internally
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:57:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85myrkkslp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zlvk2mh9.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:47:30 +0100")
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
>> The cache is useful. Without it, that is to say, when you first start
>> doc-view-mode, an `emacs -Q -D' instance says the DVI to PNG
>> conversion is pdf/ps->png, which is obviously an error.
>
> No, it's not. A dvi will be converted to pdf and that in turn is
> converted to png. That's needed cause ghostview doesn't work with dvi
> files.
dvipng might be useful here. And why would you convert dvi to pdf? Is
that faster than PostScript?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-04 16:22 doc-view-current-slice only used internally Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-04 19:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-01-04 21:39 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-04 22:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-01-05 15:49 ` Robert J. Chassell
2008-01-05 17:47 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-01-05 18:57 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-01-05 19:30 ` Tassilo Horn
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