Re: DocView: process ps->pdf changed status to killed.

[Pierre Lorenzon]

Hi Tassilo 

I am happy that you answer my question since you are the
package maintainer and devlopper and certainly know how it
works. I'll try what you recommand and tell you.

Thanks 

Pierre


From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: DocView: process ps->pdf changed status to killed.
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:25:37 +0200

> Pierre Lorenzon <devel@pollock-nageoire.net> writes:
> 
> Hi Pierre,
> 
>> I get error message in the subject when doing C-c C-c in a buffer
>> visiting a ps file and I cannot figure out why.
>>
>> Emacs version is 24.3.1 
>>
>> When doing C-c C-c I get a message syaing that no conversion to images
>> can be done since there are no tools to do that on my system. In fact
>> I am blind and only interested to text. Anyway normally if you press y
>> key text should be displayed using first a conversion to pdf and then
>> a conversion to text.
>>
>> But process dies at first step as shown by the error message.
>>
>> doc-view-pdftotext-program variable is set to ps2pdf (or ps2pdf13) but
>> both gives the same result.  Even if the two scripts ps2pdf and
>> ps2pdf13 exist on my system and run perfectly when launched from the
>> console.
> 
> Hm, you could try to evaluate the following piece of advice:
> 
>   (defadvice doc-view-start-process (before doc-view-show-cmd-line activate)
>     (message "doc-view-start-process:\n  %s %s"
>               program (mapconcat #'concat args " ")))
> 
> That will print the exact command lines doc-view executes in the
> *Messages* buffer.  The command that doesn't work should be just before
> the error message in the subject.  Then copy the command line and check
> if it works indeed in a terminal.
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo