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From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs?
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:32:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877inm2ueu.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fajlo7$doh$1@news.net.uni-c.dk

desktop <asdfsf@asd.com> writes:

Hi,

> 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?

Yesterday I wrote an extension for viewing PDF/PS and DVI files in
emacs.  It converts them to PNG (one image fer each page) and displays
the images then.

> Could be nice to have multiple buffers of the same file

You can make an indirect buffer, but since it always contains only one
page, both buffers will look identical.

> and be able to make bookmarks at certain lines.

Well, sadly that's not possible.

If you're interested anyway, have a look at:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DocViewMode
http://www.tsdh.de/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/doc-view.el

Bye,
Tassilo
-- 
Chuck Norris played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won. 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-23 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-23  9:58 Possible to read pdf files in emacs? desktop
2007-08-23 13:29 ` Stein Arild Strømme
2007-08-23 13:31 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-08-23 14:03   ` desktop
2007-08-23 20:48     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-23 23:47   ` Tim X
2007-08-23 14:32 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2007-08-23 21:20   ` Xavier Maillard

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