From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: traceback on doc-view-search in cvs
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:17:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qd8wslvhkz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gdb37p$606$1@ger.gmane.org> (Neal Becker's message of "Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:22:48 -0400")
Neal Becker wrote:
> Recent emacs cvs.
> Hitting C-s when viewing pdf gives:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> start-process("pdf->txt" " *doc-view conversion output*" nil "-raw" "/home/nbecker/numpybook.pdf" "/tmp/docview500/numpybook.pdf-637180cd704dc8be4036c09412501397/doc.txt")
It seems that the external program "pdftotext" is not in your PATH.
Admittedly, there should be a more friendly indication of this.
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2008-10-17 22:22 traceback on doc-view-search in cvs Neal Becker
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