RE: doc-view.el under windows

[Corey Foote]

Tassilo,

Thank you! Removing the directory manually solved the problem! :-)


> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: tassilo@member.fsf.org
> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:24:04 +0100
> Subject: Re: doc-view.el under windows
>
> Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Corey,
>
> > I'm having trouble getting doc-view.el to work on GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1
> > under Windows XP. The problem I'm having when I try to load a PDF, the
> > document is never displayed. The "Welcome to DocView" message is
> > displayed in the DocView buffer and "DocView: using cached files!" is
> > displayed in the minibuffer, but no PDF file ever appears. The first
> > page should be showing up, because I have left
> > doc-view-conversion-refresh-interval set to the default of 3.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I'm not sure, but please check the value of `doc-view-current-cache-dir'
> in the doc-view buffer. Have a look at this directory. Does it contain
> the png files of the document?
>
> My suspicion is that you tried to open that doc once some time ago,
> doc-view created the directory but conversion failed. Now it thinks
> that it can load the png files because the directory exists.
>
> Try `M-x doc-view-clear-cache' or remove the directory manually.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
>
>
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