Re: doc-view-current-slice only used internally

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> "Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
>> The cache is useful.  Without it, that is to say, when you first start
>> doc-view-mode, an `emacs -Q -D' instance says the DVI to PNG
>> conversion is pdf/ps->png, which is obviously an error.
>
> No, it's not.  A dvi will be converted to pdf and that in turn is
> converted to png.  That's needed cause ghostview doesn't work with dvi
> files.

dvipng might be useful here.  And why would you convert dvi to pdf?  Is
that faster than PostScript?

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