From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Clementson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostStript/DVI files in Emacs Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:34:57 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87wsvnfoyp.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87zm0i6gq2.fsf@gnu.org> <87d4xe6f6z.fsf@gnu.org> <87zm0hq6kz.fsf@gnu.org> <87hcmoc1tg.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87d4xcoxyn.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188110433 30871 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2007 06:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:40:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 08:40:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPBnN-0005Pe-PQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPBnN-00078B-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPBn6-00077r-Qu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPBn6-00077M-8R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPBn6-00077C-3s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPBn5-0001rO-F7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IPBn0-0003IB-Cn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from s010600095bf8da6e.vn.shawcable.net ([24.87.84.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from billclem by s010600095bf8da6e.vn.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:40:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s010600095bf8da6e.vn.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+OjWtcAIk5GNngzrzCoDcVnWS68= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46853 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > [ Please guys, this is a sources-only newsgroup. ] > >>> Well, why do you think you have to wait? Go on with your work and >>> eventually the *DocView* buffer pops up. (That's much better in the >>> current version now.) > >> The convert process seems very resource hungry as my Powerbook G4 >> slows to a crawl (and is basically unusable) when I'm converting a >> large (2MB) PDF file. On small PDF's, it's still usable (but slow). I >> thought that a batch option would provide an alternative that might >> not be as intrusive. > > Think about it hard: since you can do other things in Emacs in the mean > time, it's already running "in the background". If your G4 becomes > basically unusable, the best guess is that the conversion process uses up > all disk and memory resources, in which case there's not much you can do: > even lowering its CPU-priority will not buy you much responsiveness. I was thinking more in terms of kicking off a process that wasn't tied to the Emacs calling process in any way (at present, there is a process sentinel that notifies the doc-view caller that the conversion has completed) and thus could be either reduced in priority or scheduled for a different time. - Bill