From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs? Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:47:01 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <871wdt3jbe.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <87k5rmpec4.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187916038 9479 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2007 00:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 02:40:35 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 1IONDx-000595-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:40:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IONDx-00044G-2g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rqFHnbq8TtJ3c4zcd4IZ6/4ogZU= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 33 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151223 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:46796 Archived-At: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes: > 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. > I just reposted my txutils.el code to comp.emacs.sources. This mode allows conversion of various file types (pdf, ps, doc etc) to text or html and displays them in an emacs buffer as text. I use it by advising the view-file function so that if you do a 'v' on one of the supported file types (based on extension), it will convert the file to text or html (dependinig on the underlying converter) and then display. If the file is an HTML file, it uses browse-url to render and display. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au