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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: [ANN] org-docview.el - Link to PDF files from org-mode
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:33:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <083A8064-1052-455A-9C7C-2641917A8624@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m0ljlo3m83.fsf@cam.ac.uk>


On Aug 12, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Leo wrote:

> On 2009-08-12 19:25 +0100, Jan Böcker wrote:
>> the new doc-view-mode in emacs 23 can be used to view DVI, PDF and
>> PostScript files. I have written a custom link type for org-mode to
>> allow linking to those files from org-mode.
>
> If doc-view-mode could provide native support for those file types,  
> it'd
> be much more realistic to replace standard viewers provided by the os.
> Unfortunately the last time I checked which is quite a while ago, it
> converted those files into images and use Emacs to view them.
>
> A proper pdf viewer is crucial to academic workers and in each of the
> major operating systems, there are free capable viewers available.  
> So if
> this feature is to be in org core, please don't make it the default.

I don't really see how this would be a problem.  Jan does
not propose to make "file:" links use docview to display
a pdf file.  But when a user is looking at a file in docview,
it does make sense to make store link point to the docview
of the file, I would think.  No conflict in sight.

- Carsten

>
> Thanks.
>
> Leo
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-12 18:25 [ANN] org-docview.el - Link to PDF files from org-mode Jan Böcker
2009-08-12 18:45 ` Leo
2009-08-12 19:30   ` doc-view-mode (was: Re: [ANN] org-docview.el - Link to PDF files from org-mode) Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-12 19:45     ` Leo
2009-08-12 20:28       ` doc-view-mode Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-12 21:19     ` doc-view-mode Tassilo Horn
2009-08-12 22:26       ` doc-view-mode Óscar Fuentes
2009-08-13 11:11         ` doc-view-mode Tassilo Horn
2009-08-12 21:33   ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-08-12 23:50     ` [ANN] org-docview.el - Link to PDF files from org-mode Leo

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