Re: doc-view.el now allows searching

[Bill Clementson]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 31.08.2007 um 18:38 schrieb Bill Clementson:
>
>>
>> First, I thought it might have something to do with the size of the
>> pdf file or blank pages not being counted; however, searches of the
>> sicp.pdf book all seemed to produce correct results, so I'm not sure
>> why the search functionality doesn't work properly in some instances.
>
> The reason is probably that pdftotext is used with the -raw option,
> which deletes all empty lines leading white space. There is another
> option: -layout.
>
> I think doc-view should check the number of pages first (pdfinfo
> <file> | grep -i pages | awk '{print $NF}'). If the number is greater
> 1 than -layout should be more appropriate ...
>
>
> BTW, -layout is bit faster!

I tried deleting the doc.txt file, changing the pdftotext parameter to
"-layout" and re-doing the search. Unfortunately, the results were the
save with the PCL pdf file.

- Bill