Re: [Orgmode] Re: [ANN] org-docview.el - Link to PDF files from org-mode

[Carsten Dominik]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Leo wrote:

> On 2009-08-12 19:25 +0100, Jan Böcker wrote:
> > the new doc-view-mode in emacs 23 can be used to view DVI, PDF and
> > PostScript files. I have written a custom link type for org-mode to
> > allow linking to those files from org-mode.
>
> If doc-view-mode could provide native support for those file types,  
> it'd
> be much more realistic to replace standard viewers provided by the os.
> Unfortunately the last time I checked which is quite a while ago, it
> converted those files into images and use Emacs to view them.
>
> A proper pdf viewer is crucial to academic workers and in each of the
> major operating systems, there are free capable viewers available.  
> So if
> this feature is to be in org core, please don't make it the default.

I don't really see how this would be a problem.  Jan does
not propose to make "file:" links use docview to display
a pdf file.  But when a user is looking at a file in docview,
it does make sense to make store link point to the docview
of the file, I would think.  No conflict in sight.

- Carsten

> Thanks.
>
> Leo
>
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