{"id":5283,"date":"2015-02-06T11:40:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T10:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:59:28","slug":"emacs-doc-view-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2015\/02\/06\/emacs-doc-view-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Emacs Doc View Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"
            <ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emacswiki.org\/emacs\/DocViewMode\">http:\/\/www.EmacsWiki.org\/emacs\/DocViewMode<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/manual\/html_node\/emacs\/Document-View.html\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/manual\/html_node\/emacs\/Document-View.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tsdh.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/22\/view-documents-pdfpostscriptdvi-inside-emacs\/#comment-4351\">https:\/\/tsdh.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/22\/view-documents-pdfpostscriptdvi-inside-emacs\/#comment-4351<\/a> \u2013 asked the developer to rectify things on the resp. EmacsWiki page quoted above<\/li>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/ul>\n
Ever since I noticed, that in new Emacsen you are able (resp. you should be able) to view e.g. PDFs within Emacs buffers, I wondered why this does not work “on certain platforms”. Today I finally searched for “emacs docview”, found the right document (see above), and solved the issue.<\/p>\n
Emacs needs “gs” for converting PDFs to a series of PNGs, but of course it needs to find “gs” on its PATH. “On certain platforms”, $HOME\/.profile (or so \/ etc.) does not get read, so would I manipulate PATH within $HOME\/.emacs? No, I don’t like that. An alternative approach:<\/p>\n
M-x customize-group RET doc-view RET<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And set “Doc View Ghostscript Program” individually. Where is “gs”? Maybe “type -a gs<\/em>“?!?<\/p>\n
Now I enjoy viewing PDFs inside Emacs on even more platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<ul> <li><a href=”http:\/\/www.emacswiki.org\/emacs\/DocViewMode”>http:\/\/www.EmacsWiki.org\/emacs\/DocViewMode<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=”https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/manual\/html_node\/emacs\/Document-View.html”>https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/manual\/html_node\/emacs\/Document-View.html<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=”https:\/\/tsdh.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/22\/view-documents-pdfpostscriptdvi-inside-emacs\/#comment-4351″>https:\/\/tsdh.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/22\/view-documents-pdfpostscriptdvi-inside-emacs\/#comment-4351<\/a> \u2013 asked the developer to rectify things on the resp. EmacsWiki page quoted above<\/li> Ever since I noticed, that in new Emacsen you are able (resp. you should be able) to view e.g. PDFs within Emacs buffers, I wondered why this does not work “on certain platforms”. Today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[120],"tags":[1566],"class_list":["post-5283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emacs","tag-docview"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-1nd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13686,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/13686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}