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Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:26:42 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
Hi David,
> Have you tried out preview-latex (integrated with AUCTeX since version
> 11.80)? It displays images in Emacs buffers without blocking Emacs at
> all, and renders stuff in the background with a focus on material that
> is on-screen.
I had a look at it but it didn't look that borrowing code there would
simplify doc-view.el.
> It works using Ghostscript on either PDF or PostScript files (in the
> latter case, dvips is used) or dvipng on DVI files.
I changed doc-view.el so that it uses plain ghostscript (plus dvipdfm
for DVI files) which gives good results and is about ten times faster
than with ImageMagick's convert.
The only downside is that I don't know how to cut off the margins.
Those waste a lot of buffer space when displaying the image. converts
-trim option was very nice for that cause. Do you know how one can do
that with ghostview?
> Ghostscript is used as a daemon in order to render the stuff in a
> useful order, and a single Ghostscript session renders all images.
Well, the conversion in doc-view.el runs asynchronous, too. Users can
go on with their work and eventually the *DocView* buffer will pop up.
Bye,
Tassilo
- doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/24
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, Michaƫl Cadilhac, 2007/08/24
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/24
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/08/24
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs,
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/08/25
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/26
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/08/27
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/27
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/08/27
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/27
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/08/27
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/27
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/08/27
- Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs, Tassilo Horn, 2007/08/28