Re: doc-view.el --- View PDF/PostScript/DVI files in Emacs

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi David,
>
>>> I don't agree here.  IMO it wastes too much screen estate to display
>>> the margins.  When those were cut off I could split my emacs frame
>>> horizontally and view a PDF doc in one window and have another
>>> 80-columns window for work.
>>>
>>> Now that's not possible anymore because the images contain those huge
>>> margins.  The only solution is to make the images smaller but that
>>> makes them hard to read.  And I cannot scroll-left to center the
>>> image.  Even `C-u 1 C-x <' scrolls too much.
>>
>> That is an argument for giving better scrolling/margining behavior to
>> Emacs (you _do_ realize that Emacs can display partial images?).
>
> Not yet, but I'll have a look at how that can be done.  Thanks for the
> pointer.

The documentation is somewhat hidden.  Look under
(info "(elisp) Other Display Specs") for the "slice" specification.

-- 
David Kastrup