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Re: How to make doc-view-mode work on Windows?


From: zunumi
Subject: Re: How to make doc-view-mode work on Windows?
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 21:08:41 -0700 (PDT)
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On Aug 8, 11:41 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 7, 10:12 pm, zunumi <jiaji.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have MikTeX installed so I changed the variable doc-view-ghostscript-
> > program to point to mgs, and it finds the program well, but on opening
> > a pdf file, emacs keeps saying that it doesn't support PNG output, but
> > of course it does, it's written in the output of 'mgs -h', so what's
> > wrongt with this?
>
> the doc view mode doesn't work for me on Windows nor OS X. e.g. here's
> the error msg when trying to open a pdf inside dired in emacsW32:
>
> No PNG support available or some conversion utility for pdf files is
> missing.  Type C-c C-c to switch to fundamental-mode, C-c C-t to show
> the doc as text in a separate buffer  or k to kill this buffer.
> Error during redisplay: (wrong-type-argument numberp nil)
> Mark set
>
>   Xah
>http://xahlee.org/
>
>

I get the same error message, but as I googled, the doc-view mode
doesn't work on Windows and OS out of the box, but it should work
after some configuration, I just can't find the details.


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