From: Edward Lilley <ejlilley@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Doc-view failing to generate image
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:25:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sj8xzfij.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a9v5sh1k.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de
Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> Edward Lilley <ejlilley@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Edward,
>
>> I'm getting a funny error when trying to open (simple C-x C-f) PDF
>> files in doc-view mode. The png appears in /tmp/docview500/foo, but
>> then the image doesn't actually appear in the buffer -- and then
>> *Messages* shows the error:
>>
>> ImageMagick error: NoDecodeDelegateForThisImageFormat
>> \
>> /tmp/docview500/obsmltest.pdf-07534b262c8761286817c76762acef2c/page-1.png'
>> \ @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/550 [2 times]
>>
>> (line breaks added)
>>
>> ...which is a bit baffling.
>
> It seems your ImageMagick hasn't been compiled with PNG support. Does
>
> $ identify -list format
>
> include PNG with mode "rw-"? Also,
>
> $ identify -list configure
>
> should include --with-png in CONFIGURE and png in DELEGATES.
Hi, thanks for the response.
It actually seems I've fixed it with a package update & relaunching
emacs -- I think an update of ImageMagick (or similar) while emacs was
running confused it somehow.
> What distro are you using?
(for the record: I'm using Arch -- perhaps more prone to these strange
mix-ups!)
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
thanks,
Edward
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-29 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-29 0:02 Doc-view failing to generate image Edward Lilley
2012-10-29 5:53 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-29 10:34 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-10-29 11:25 ` Edward Lilley [this message]
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