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

[Pierre Lorenzon]

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: DocView: process ps->pdf changed status to killed.
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:41:07 +0200

> Pierre Lorenzon <devel@pollock-nageoire.net> writes:
> 
> Hi Pierre,
> 
>> Oops sorry ! In fact it does not work better with --no-site-file and
>> -q. Simply I forgot removing pdf files that had been manually created
>> and doc-view hence did not launch the conversion process.
> 
> Ok, I see.  But is it still true that the `start-process' form of my
> last mail worked, i.e., the process finished normally without being
> killed?  That would be strange since that's pretty much the same what
> doc-view does except that the latter might use a different
> `default-directory'.
> 
> So if it really worked, please try:
> 
> (let* ((default-directory (or (unhandled-file-name-directory
>                              default-directory)
>                             (expand-file-name "~/")))
>        (process (start-process "ps2pdf conversion"
>                              "ps2pdf conversion output"
>                              "ps2pdf"
>                              "-dSAFER"
>                              "/home/devel/test.ps"
>                              
> "/tmp/docview1001/test.ps-932911a0f86866e1b95b1aaf506a818b/doc.pdf")))
>   (set-process-sentinel process
>                         #'(lambda (proc event)
>                             (message "Process: %s had the event `%s'"
>                                      proc event))))  ;; C-x C-e here
> 
> Now that's really exactly what doc-view does.

  Not really exactly as I see in the code since I saw a few
  supplementary things like recording the process in a list etc
  ...

  Anyway the code above gives finished since C-c C-c then y
  still gives killed in buffer test.ps. I will investigate more
  precisely but I have not much time at the moement.

  Thanks 

  Pierre



> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo