Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:

Hi Joost,

>> You can still slice with:
>
> yes, i saw that function. however, the thing is, the text itself is
> simply too large to fit on my screen. ;-) telling doc-view to create
> smaller images wouldn't work either, because then the text becomes too
> small to read.

But you should be able to scroll with C-v/M-v or the arrow keys, aren't
you?

>>> other viewers (xdvi, xpdf) usually use the space bar to scroll down
>>> and jump to the top of the next page if the bottom of the page is
>>> shown. usually, DEL or backspace does the opposite.
>>
>> Implemented.
>
> thanks, i just downloaded the new version. your way of doing it is a
> bit smarter than mine. ;-) unfortunately, moving backward from the top
> of page X to the bottom of page X-1 doesn't work. the cause seems to
> be to be what i would consider a bug in emacs, though.
>
> the problem is that calling (goto-char (point-max)) makes the entire
> image disappear from the visible part of the buffer; only the line
> "Page x of y" is visible. if at this point i hit DEL to scroll down
> the image and make it visible, emacs displays the *top* part of the
> image, not the bottom part, which i would expect.

Yes, I know.  Emacs' image scrolling capabilities are somewhat poor.

> btw, defparameter is back again, and you've made a typo:
> doc-view-scroll-dows-or-previous-page (twice)
> ...................^

Thanks, I've fixed both.

Bye,
Tassilo
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