Re: How to make doc-view-mode work on Windows?

[zunumi <jiaji.wang@gmail.com>]

On Aug 9, 3:24 pm, Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Aug 7, 10:12 pm, zunumi <jiaji.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snipped 9 lines]
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> > No PNG support available or some conversion utility for pdf files is
> > missing.  Type C-c C-c to switch to fundamental-mode, C-c C-t to show
> > the doc as text in a separate buffer  or k to kill this buffer.
> > Error during redisplay: (wrong-type-argument numberp nil)
> > Mark set
>
> [snipped 5 lines]
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> It works for me on W32 Emacs.  Maybe the conversion is happening
> correctly for the OP but Emacs is unable to render the PNGs.  I too,
> sort of recollect receiving the same error message but getting the
> following DLLs
>
> glut32.dll
> jpeg62.dll
> libimage.dll
> libpng12.dll
> libpng13.dll
> libpng3.dll
> librle3.dll
> libtiff3.dll
> zlib1.dll
>
> from the gnuwin32 site, it seems to render it fine.  I too have Miktex
> 2.7 installed. And I also have cygwin installed.  Not sure whether the
> rendering is happening with cygwin based image libraries or the DLLs.
>
> Probably the DLLs.
>
>  sivaram
>  --

You are right, libpng is needed on Windows for Emacs to display png
file, thank you!