From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc-view-current-slice only used internally Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:57:54 +0100 Message-ID: <85myrkkslp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <871w8xbdls.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87wsqp9qhk.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87zlvk2mh9.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199559428 11541 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 18:57:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:57:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 19:57:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBED3-0004Ge-Mu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:57:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBECh-0000bS-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBECe-0000aD-2t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBECb-0000Yy-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:57:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBECa-0000Yv-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:57:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBECa-0003lQ-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:57:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25EC41F55EB for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:56:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 105762BEBF3 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:56:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-039-009.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.39.9]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29D2292B62 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:56:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 1481E1CCF7AE; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:57:54 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87zlvk2mh9.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:47:30 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/5376/Sat Jan 5 15:17:21 2008 on mail-in-07.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:86212 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > > Hi Robert, > >> The cache is useful. Without it, that is to say, when you first start >> doc-view-mode, an `emacs -Q -D' instance says the DVI to PNG >> conversion is pdf/ps->png, which is obviously an error. > > No, it's not. A dvi will be converted to pdf and that in turn is > converted to png. That's needed cause ghostview doesn't work with dvi > files. dvipng might be useful here. And why would you convert dvi to pdf? Is that faster than PostScript? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum