Re: problem with doc-view-mode in 24.1

[Tassilo Horn]

address@hidden writes:

Hi!

> Hi.  I am having a couple of problems with doc-view in 24.1.  In 23.x,
> when I find a .pdf, doc-view was automatically active, now I have to
> type doc-view-mode to get it.  Any hook I can use to do this
> automatically?

It should be active for PDF files by default.  With emacs 24.1, doing

  $ emacs -Q some/doc.pdf

opens the pdf with doc-view.

> However, the worst problem is that I often get the following message
> when trying to use doc-view-mode:
> DocView: process pdf->txt changed status to killed.

Does

  $ pdftotext -raw doc.pdf doc.txt

on the command line work, or does it crash?

Bye,
Tassilo