Re: How to make doc-view-mode work on Windows?

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On Aug 8, 9:08 pm, zunumi <jiaji.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 11:41 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 7, 10:12 pm, zunumi <jiaji.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I have MikTeX installed so I changed the variable doc-view-ghostscript-
> > > program to point to mgs, and it finds the program well, but on opening
> > > a pdf file, emacs keeps saying that it doesn't support PNG output, but
> > > of course it does, it's written in the output of 'mgs -h', so what's
> > > wrongt with this?
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> > the doc view mode doesn't work for me on Windows nor OS X. e.g. here's
> > the error msg when trying to open a pdf inside dired in emacsW32:
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> > No PNG support available or some conversion utility for pdf files is
> > missing.  Type C-c C-c to switch to fundamental-mode, C-c C-t to show
> > the doc as text in a separate buffer  or k to kill this buffer.
> > Error during redisplay: (wrong-type-argument numberp nil)
> > Mark set
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> >   Xah
> > ∑http://xahlee.org/
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> I get the same error message, but as I googled, the doc-view mode
> doesn't work on Windows and OS out of the box, but it should work
> after some configuration, I just can't find the details.

Tassilo Horn wrote the mode. Tass, how about helping us poor fellows
who just want things to work?

LOL.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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