From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Viewing PDFs as text?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:11:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqzs5ei0.fsf@member.fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k5k8bav9.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:32:58 +0100")
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>> When trying to view a PDF with in a tty, `doc-view-initiate-display'
>> throws an error about missing support for image, png or other
>> utilities.
>>
>> Maybe it would be better to display the output of pdftotext directly
>> in a tty. In X Window, the default behavior would be to display the
>> image when images are supported, and to fall back on pdftotext when
>> not.
>
> That would be the ideal behavior. But looking at the code it seems
> quite hard to do, especially if you want to keep most/all of
> doc-view's features.
>
> What could be done was to open a separate buffer (in fundamental-mode)
> that displays the output of pdftotext. I'll give that a try.
That's now in CVS. With C-c C-t you can open a new buffer that shows
the text of the current document. When d-v-m doesn't work this binding
will be mentioned.
Bye,
Tassilo
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2008-03-11 17:57 ` Viewing PDFs as text? Bastien
2008-03-11 20:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-12 8:32 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-03-12 9:54 ` Phil Jackson
2008-03-12 12:12 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-03-12 12:11 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
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