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Questions tagged [docview]

DocView mode is a major mode for viewing DVI, PostScript (PS), PDF, OpenDocument, and Microsoft Office documents. It provides features such as slicing, zooming, and searching inside documents. It works by converting the document to a set of images using the gs (GhostScript) or mudraw/pdfdraw (MuPDF) commands and other external tools, and displaying those images.

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How to view and edit pdf files in emacs?

I heard that we can view pdf files in emacs. Is it done by converting pdf files to plain texts first? Can we view pdf files at its fullness in emacs? can we edit pdf files in emacs? Thanks.
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read e-books in Emacs

I use eww to read online articles in Emacs instead of in a browser because it is less distracting and I can take notes in an org-mode quickly without switching applications. I wonder how feasible it is to read an e-books in epub, or pdf format in…
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improve doc-view display quality

The fonts in my pdf's as displayed in doc-view aren't particularly readable. Is there a setting I can change to improve the image quality? I tried changing doc-view-resolution from 100 to 300, but that just made the pdf render larger.
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How to display several pages of a PDF simultaneously in Docview?

I'm using Emacs, AUCTeX, and latex-preview-pane-mode to create a PDF presentation. However, the preview only displays one page at a time. Is this the only way? It wastes some of the vertical space available on the screen. Is it possible for Docview…
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Org-mode file hyperlinks always use doc-view, can't force it to use external pdf viewer

I am using Emacs 25.1 run with emacs -Q and Org mode version 8.2.10. This problem persists in my customized Emacs with Org mode version 8.3.6. I am attempting to open hyperlinks of the form [[file:documenterino.pdf][documenterino]] using the…
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Doc-view change background to black

How can we invert the colors of the image when opening a pdf file in doc-view?
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Make doc-view use mupdf for pdf files

Of course I already know about https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools. I am on Emacs 24.5.1. I am not convinced that doc-view is using mudraw/mupdf for pdf files. (require 'doc-view) (print…
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Enable follow-mode for PDF in doc-view/pdf-view-mode

Is it possible to customize follow mode to open the next PDF page in another buffer? Currently follow-mode has no effect on PDF files.
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Preview PDFs with helm-bibtex

I use helm-bibtex to navigate and manage my bibtex database. Each entry is linked to a PDF. I am looking for a way to see a live preview of each pdf, while scanning through my helm completion window and marking entries that I want to read, take…
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Emacs 24 Gui and Retina Display

I've got a macbook pro with a retina display and Emacs 24.5. DocView rendering of pdf are very blurry. There is a few threads on the subjects but they deal with setting a higher resolution which didn't work for me. I wrote on my .emacs (setq…
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Doc-view not working despite gs being in my path

I have trouble getting the doc-view-mode displaying pdfs. Here's the error message generated : No PNG support is available, or some conversion utility for pdf files is missing. From what I've gathered, I must make sure that gs is in emacs path…
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doc-view-mode-hook?

Whenever I open a pdf in emacs, I'd like to increase the font size. I thought I would just place (doc-view-enlarge) in a 'doc-view-mode-hook. However, I can't find such a hook. Yet this source claims the hook…
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disable view prompt in AUCtex

I have been attempting to disable a prompt by auctex when pressing C-c C-c to view the document for close to the entire day. As I am a noob to emacs, I attempted to simply modify the auctex configuration used here. can anyone give me advice what…
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Use mutool / mpdf to render pdf documents in doc-view mode in Windows

Since I feel that ghostscript is buggy on my surface laptop (at least its not working properly for doc-view in emacs with the pdf-Documents I want view; its beamer.pdf created with org-mode-beamer with complex huge pictures integrated; doc-view…
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pdf-tools indirect buffers

I am using an indirect buffer of a pdf from a pdf-tools PDFView buffer. This works except the indirect buffer is in DocView mode, and therefore I can't use any of the pdf-tools features in that buffer. Is there a way to clone the PDFView buffer into…
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