From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc-view-current-slice only used internally Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:30:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87r6gw2hpo.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <871w8xbdls.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87wsqp9qhk.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87zlvk2mh9.fsf@member.fsf.org> <85myrkkslp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199561461 17725 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2008 19:31:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:31:01 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 05 20:31:19 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 1JBEjm-0005kh-Rd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:31:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBEjQ-0004yS-4P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:30:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBEj1-0004wW-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:30:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBEiz-0004vD-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:30:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBEiz-0004v6-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:30:29 -0500 Original-Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBEiz-0000UV-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:30:29 -0500 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6C383140 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:30:29 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:30:29 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: vDvkEXW+wTygFAnmEu9S2fnWW9tEywivopkPwbnqI7Xz 1199561428 Original-Received: from baldur (dslb-084-063-029-135.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.63.29.135]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65528110D1 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:30:28 -0500 (EST) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <85myrkkslp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:57:54 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:86217 Archived-At: David Kastrup 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