From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan S Barnett Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Doc-view doesn't work properly Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:32:17 -0500 Organization: NIMH/CBDB Message-ID: <4D25E081.7020205@mail.nih.gov> Reply-To: asb@mail.nih.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294335210 26549 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2011 17:33:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:33:30 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 18:33:26 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PatiF-0007mI-Th for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:33:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PatiF-0005sD-6e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:33:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56386 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Parr9-0002cc-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Parr8-0000Pt-EQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:34:27 -0500 Original-Received: from nihrelayxway6.hub.nih.gov ([128.231.90.100]:9315) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Parr8-0000PZ-AP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:34:26 -0500 X-IronPortListener: NIH_Relay X-SBRS: None X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,283,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="212954541" Original-Received: from mailfwd.nih.gov ([128.231.90.107]) by nihrelayxway6.hub.nih.gov with ESMTP; 06 Jan 2011 10:32:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [137.187.28.66] (137.187.28.66) by mailfwd.nih.gov (128.231.90.107) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.255.0; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:32:16 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:31:34 -0500 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:78263 Archived-At: I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on a linux workstation. I have doc-view.el installed, and when I type M-x doc-view I can specify a file and view it properly. On the other hand, when I click on a pdf file in dired, the file is=20 opened in a new buffer that is in doc-view-mode, but instead of being=20 properly displayed I get the contents of the file interpreted as ASCII: %PDF-1.3 %=E4=E3=CF=D2 140 0 obj << /Linearized 1.0 /O 142 /H [ 1562 938 ] /L 1596679 /E 48957 /N 22 /T 1593834 >> endobj xref 140 57 0000000015 00000 n 0000001473 00000 n 0000002500 00000 n 0000002769 00000 n 0000002976 00000 n What should I do to get the document displayed properly when I select it = from dired? --=20 Alan Barnett, PhD Physicist, NIMH/CBDB 10/3C213 301 402-3507