Re: doc-view-current-slice only used internally

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

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

Hi David,

>>> 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.

Oh, indeed, that should be considered.  I didn't know that.

> And why would you convert dvi to pdf?  Is that faster than PostScript?

I use dvipdfm for that job.

I added a todo in my org-file to use dvipng if available.

Bye,
Tassilo