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Re: doc-view-current-slice only used internally
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: doc-view-current-slice only used internally |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:30:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
Hi David,
>>> The cache is useful. Without it, that is to say, when you first
>>> start doc-view-mode, an `emacs -Q -D' instance says the DVI to PNG
>>> conversion is pdf/ps->png, which is obviously an error.
>>
>> No, it's not. A dvi will be converted to pdf and that in turn is
>> converted to png. That's needed cause ghostview doesn't work with
>> dvi files.
>
> dvipng might be useful here.
Oh, indeed, that should be considered. I didn't know that.
> And why would you convert dvi to pdf? Is that faster than PostScript?
I use dvipdfm for that job.
I added a todo in my org-file to use dvipng if available.
Bye,
Tassilo