From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Doc-view failing to generate image
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:34:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9v5sh1k.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m34nletaa6.fsf@gmail.com
Edward Lilley <ejlilley@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Edward,
> I'm getting a funny error when trying to open (simple C-x C-f) PDF
> files in doc-view mode. The png appears in /tmp/docview500/foo, but
> then the image doesn't actually appear in the buffer -- and then
> *Messages* shows the error:
>
> ImageMagick error: NoDecodeDelegateForThisImageFormat
> \ `/tmp/docview500/obsmltest.pdf-07534b262c8761286817c76762acef2c/page-1.png'
> \ @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/550 [2 times]
>
> (line breaks added)
>
> ...which is a bit baffling.
It seems your ImageMagick hasn't been compiled with PNG support. Does
$ identify -list format
include PNG with mode "rw-"? Also,
$ identify -list configure
should include --with-png in CONFIGURE and png in DELEGATES.
What distro are you using?
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-29 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-29 0:02 Doc-view failing to generate image Edward Lilley
2012-10-29 5:53 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-29 10:34 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2012-10-29 11:25 ` Edward Lilley
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