Re: pdf-tools

[Philip Kaludercic]

aalinovi@riseup.net writes:

> Several days ago I wrote about the problems I was having getting
> pdf-tools to install.
> I'd like to that Eli and tpeplt for taking the time to respond.
>
> Unfortunately, I still can't get it working.
> I followed Eli's advice re aclocal but then trying pdf-tools-install returns:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Building the PDF Tools server failed")
> signal(error ("Building the PDF Tools server failed"))
> error("%s" "Building the PDF Tools server failed")
> #f(compiled-function (executable) #<bytecode 0x10759317b39ed228>)(nil)
> #f(compiled-function (buffer status) #<bytecode -0x1dcd21fe4553cec5>)(#<buffer
> commpilation*> "exited abnormally with code 1\n")
> run-hook-with-args(#f(compiled-function (buffer status) #<bytecode
> -0x1dcd21fe4553cec5>) #<buffer *compilation*> "exited abnormally with code 
> 1\n")
> compilation-handle-exit(exit 1 "exited abnormally with code 1\n")
> compilation-sentinel(#<process comint> "exited abnormally with code 1\n"

It is not particularly difficult to interpret the stack trace, it just
doesn't contain enough information to tell exactly what the issue was.
A subprocess failed, possibly due to missing build-time dependencies.
Unless I am mistaken, you should be able to see what went wrong in the
"*compilation*" buffer.

> I don't expect to have anyone take the time to interpret this for me
> so I may just go with tpeplt's suggestion and simply
> use DocView. I also have OpenWith installed so I could set that up to
> open pdf files in Zathura.

If you are on Emacs 29 or newer and have mutools[0] installed, check out
the `doc-view-mupdf-use-svg' user option.  It improves the readability
significantly.

[0] https://mupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mupdf-command-line.html#mutool

> Arthur