From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs? Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:31:23 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87k5rmpec4.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187876478 29562 80.91.229.12 (23 Aug 2007 13:41:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:41:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 23 15:41:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IOCvy-00019I-TM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOCvy-0006wj-Cg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:41:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!elk.ncren.net!news.purdue.edu!purdue!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1187875943 30883 132.183.29.121 (23 Aug 2007 13:32:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:32:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jtaWIe6qp7egWVb5m4PEbsNw2hY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151204 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46776 Archived-At: desktop writes: > I am not very satisfied with using acroread 7 to view my pdf files. Is > there some way to use emacs to view pdf files instead? Could be nice > to have multiple buffers of the same file and be able to make > bookmarks at certain lines. It depends on what you mean by "read." Try opening a PDF as text and see what you get. What operating system are you using? I use either KPDF or Xpdf to read pdf documents on Linux. Both are very nice. I open them from dired using "M-!" There are other pdf readers available for Linux --- and many for Windows and Mac OS X. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109