Re: [h-e-w] C-x C-f foo.pdf?

[Johannes Becker]

just follow this blog entry:

http://emacsworld.blogspot.de/2009/08/getting-docview-to-work-on-windows.html

Am 03.07.2012 17:23, schrieb Raymond Zeitler:
> When I open a PDF file, I see the binary file content.  Yet apparently it's 
> possible to view the human-readable content.  For example, the following is 
> quoted from Sacha Chua's transcript of her Skype conversation about Emacs with 
> John Wiegley.
>
> "J: I just started playing around with [Emacs'] ability to view PDF files. You can 
> use C-x C-f to open a PDF file and you'll see it in your Emacs. It renders them page by 
> page as PNG files, and then uses the Imagemagick extension built into Emacs 24 to show 
> you those pages."[1]
>
> I'm running version 24.1.1 pre-compiled binary on Windows 7 64-bit (SP1).  Do I 
> need to re-build Emacs with different options in order to render PDF?  I also 
> have The GIMP installed and running on the same system.  Just curious.
>
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> 1. http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/07/transcript-emacs-chat-john-wiegley/