From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: [ANN] org-docview.el - Link to PDF files from org-mode Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:33:03 +0200 Message-ID: <083A8064-1052-455A-9C7C-2641917A8624@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbLRZ-0005GH-SD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:33:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MbLRU-0005EE-EQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:33:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35880 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbLRU-0005EA-6Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:33:08 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f207.google.com ([209.85.219.207]:35586) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MbLRT-0005zl-PN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:33:07 -0400 Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so449112ewy.42 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:33:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Leo Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Aug 12, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Leo wrote: > On 2009-08-12 19:25 +0100, Jan B=F6cker 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, =20= > 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. =20 > 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 > > --=20 > Emacs uptime: 2 days, 4 hours, 16 minutes, 37 seconds > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode