* Possible to read pdf files in emacs?
@ 2007-08-23 9:58 desktop
2007-08-23 13:29 ` Stein Arild Strømme
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From: desktop @ 2007-08-23 9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.
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* Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs?
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 14:32 ` Tassilo Horn
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From: Stein Arild Strømme @ 2007-08-23 13:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
[desktop]
| 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.
Hit the file with pdftotext first. The result depends heavily on the
underlying structure of the PDF file, of course.
SA
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* Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs?
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 23:47 ` Tim X
2007-08-23 14:32 ` Tassilo Horn
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From: Joel J. Adamson @ 2007-08-23 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
desktop <asdfsf@asd.com> 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.
Joel
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Joel J. Adamson
Biostatistician
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 643-1432
(303) 880-3109
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* Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs?
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
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From: desktop @ 2007-08-23 14:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Joel J. Adamson wrote:
> desktop <asdfsf@asd.com> 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.
garbage
>
> 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-!"
I use Linux Ubuntu. In KPDF or Xpdf its not possible to have multiple
buffers of the same pdf file in the same instance of the program.
Further you cannot make bookmarks at certain linenumbers.
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* Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs?
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 14:32 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-08-23 21:20 ` Xavier Maillard
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From: Tassilo Horn @ 2007-08-23 14:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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
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* Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs?
2007-08-23 14:03 ` desktop
@ 2007-08-23 20:48 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2007-08-23 20:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> I use Linux Ubuntu. In KPDF or Xpdf its not possible to have multiple
> buffers of the same pdf file in the same instance of the program.
Does it matter if it's the same instance or not? The few times I need it,
I just run two `xpdf' processes showing the same PDF file.
> Further you cannot make bookmarks at certain linenumbers.
Freedom has a price. But you can at least send a request for feature, or
pay someone to implement it.
Stefan
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* Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs?
2007-08-23 14:32 ` Tassilo Horn
@ 2007-08-23 21:20 ` Xavier Maillard
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From: Xavier Maillard @ 2007-08-23 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> 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.
+1. This is the perfect tools for basic document reading in my
+opinion.
Regards
--
Xavier Maillard
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* Re: Possible to read pdf files in emacs?
2007-08-23 13:31 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-08-23 14:03 ` desktop
@ 2007-08-23 23:47 ` Tim X
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From: Tim X @ 2007-08-23 23:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
> desktop <asdfsf@asd.com> 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
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tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
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