Hi Vikas,

maybe you could make me a minimal setup so that I can reproduce this?
Just a little folder with two files and a minimal .emacs that defines
publishing of these files to some other directory.

That would be useful.

- Carsten

On 7.6.2013, at 18:15, Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> wrote:

> When I publish the project, orgmode attempts to open all pdf files
> (which are static content). It seems to me that some sort of indexing
> is being attempted though I am not sure. I think it started happening
> after I included creation of a sitemap. 
> 
> I get messages like this:
> 
> DocView: process pdf/ps->png changed status to killed.
> 
> This slows down publishing considerably. I have just added some large
> pdf files, and now it asks me for each such file whether I want to
> open it. org-publish gets stuck if I say yes, and aborts publishing if
> I say no.
> 
> Is there a way, I could tell orgmode to not try to process these pdf
> files. pdf files are being processed through a sub-project that deals
> with static content (org-publish-attachment).
> 
> Would be grateful for any advice.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Vikas 
> 
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