From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc-view-mode
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:28:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a7w4w16.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m0hbwc3jg5.fsf@cam.ac.uk
Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2009-08-12 20:30 +0100, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>> Converting the pdf|ps|dvi file to images is exactly what your
>> favourite viewer does.
>
> Could you provide a link to this? I'd like to know more about the
> details.
See the source code of your favourite document viewer.
There is a simple explanation: the screen shows only images, hence
whatever you want to see on the screen must be converted to a image
first.
> However, whatever the pdf viewer does, a proper one makes working with
> pdf files pleasant. For example, skim on OS X is a decent one.
I agree but `pleasant' is a subjective appreciation. doc-view-mode
implements partial scrolling (advance only 90% or so on each screen
down, so the line at the bottom becomes the line at the top) but the pdf
readers I use on Linux (okular) and Windows (Foxit) doesn't implement
this feature, so I often need to micro-adjust the view for reading the
line at the top or the bottom. This is a PITA and the reason why
doc-view-mode is more pleasant for reading books than the other
mentioned viewers.
IIRC OS X has built-in support for ps and pdf, so maybe the doc viewer
there does the same a plain text viewer does on any OS: use the services
provided by the OS for rendering the image.
--
Óscar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 20:28 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 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
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 ` Re: [ANN] org-docview.el - Link to PDF files from org-mode Carsten Dominik
2009-08-12 23:50 ` Leo
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