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Re: traceback on doc-view-search in cvs
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: traceback on doc-view-search in cvs |
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Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:17:16 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Neal Becker wrote:
> Recent emacs cvs.
> Hitting C-s when viewing pdf gives:
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> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> start-process("pdf->txt" " *doc-view conversion output*" nil "-raw"
> "/home/nbecker/numpybook.pdf"
> "/tmp/docview500/numpybook.pdf-637180cd704dc8be4036c09412501397/doc.txt")
It seems that the external program "pdftotext" is not in your PATH.
Admittedly, there should be a more friendly indication of this.