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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: covici@ccs.covici.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with doc-view-mode in 24.1
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:07:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873943n91y.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6245.1344013265@ccs.covici.com> (covici@ccs.covici.com's message of "Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:01:05 -0400")

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.

> 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?

Bye,
Tassilo



  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03 17:01 problem with doc-view-mode in 24.1 covici
2012-08-03 18:07 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2012-08-03 18:22   ` covici
2012-08-04 19:16     ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-08-05  9:05       ` covici

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