From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] nextstep: Emacs can be used to edit PDF files Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 04:55:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20211110083818.57631-1-dme@dme.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19554"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: David Edmondson , emacs-devel@gnu.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_Mart=C3=ADn?= To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 20 04:56:11 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1moHU3-0004re-4L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 20 Nov 2021 04:56:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52910 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1moHU1-0001gu-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:56:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1moHTF-00011i-9A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pj1-f45.google.com ([209.85.216.45]:43841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1moHTD-0003SP-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pj1-f45.google.com with SMTP id nh10-20020a17090b364a00b001a69adad5ebso10393191pjb.2 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2021 19:55:19 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=Sb3E245dN836qGsRFII5NyQxlnsxulfWXQonIUKq4qI=; b=1Wu1f52Lpqps6iax0kIBckIQwkdMaMMmXGOgKxwlvHAMEU8AumbI2Prr9qo0VbCL53 4ivzEm6UK7wdK3gzoeyppFPyc4ZzMhV9y4C7Nkt1VCUBNZcK71O1JKeb8wMKATG4kKPj OiHBhSzEJgxZv0yRflLMlobYPkYO4RGG00eF/N9e6OBZElxWdQhatqjY+VJKW5H+97Ca 9cNSQlKAl2X0atsmHfRmijSYL7KFAr6yrk6bp49z4yMy87KU2Zj7iRCNgDRAM4HiYCty M4FOE2QQHICVxTz9UQ8kcvIU1u1O9YCBf7RhU0utQHEFf+QwxpPBgZ5chMQzsVyGNNfh xDhQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532uyhfYXIGY/GmACpcyzDPgXtoeUcGuq09NSyfDVsHtLlDkiatf iQe0pyiMTUFgoe87WVDnMeqBlJ8V8z52Cq2oic0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyWQ8jacLjqjofTbzgz8mHJ/uo3v8oCiLdO3+wTIx6epSsY8Q0IPh0AnUESwxDMn1w0ww1YAm+M+CARn+NKp0E= X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:4414:: with SMTP id s20mr6447838pjg.132.1637380518455; Fri, 19 Nov 2021 19:55:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Sat, 20 Nov 2021 04:55:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=209.85.216.45; envelope-from=stefankangas@gmail.com; helo=mail-pj1-f45.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.248, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:279777 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Any chance we could change doc-view so it works without `gs` (nor > `mupdf`) using one of the tools pre-installed in macOS? It seems like we could, from searching the web there's apparently a tool called "sips" that is pre-installed on macOS. I just checked my machine and I have it there. AFAICT, you can't convert only one page with it, only the full page. But it seems to be a hard requirement of a `doc-view-pdf->png-converter-function' that we can specify a page number to it, so I'm not sure how tricky it is to fit into what we have now. Maybe someone more familiar with doc-view could take a look.