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Emacs includes functionality to act as an image and document viewer via its Docview feature.
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'''Docview''' is the document viewer within Emacs.  Use this library to view non-text files like pdf, odt etc without leaving Emacs.  It works by converting a file to an image and then displaying the image in an Emacs buffer.
  
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Most usually the way to use this feature is to simply find a file of an appropriate type, e.g. a PNG image or a PDF document.
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; {{Keys|C-x C-f}} myfile.pdf
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: This should display the pdf file.  On GNU/Linux systems, this works out of the box.  If this command doesn't work, install or configure the various programs.
  
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When in Docview-mode {{Keys|C-c C-c}} (or {{Command|image-toggle-display}}) will toggle between viewing the image or document graphically and viewing it in text format. This can be useful for directly modifying PDF files, for instance.
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; {{CommandKeys|C-c C-c|image-toggle-display}}
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: When in Docview-mode, this will toggle between text format and it's image representation. This can be useful for directly modifying PDF files, for instance.
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Docview mode typically works out of the box on GNU/Linux systems. If you are running Emacs on Windows it likely requires some additional libraries to be manually installed.
 

Revision as of 02:35, 28 March 2012

Docview is the document viewer within Emacs. Use this library to view non-text files like pdf, odt etc without leaving Emacs. It works by converting a file to an image and then displaying the image in an Emacs buffer.

[C-x C-f] myfile.pdf
This should display the pdf file. On GNU/Linux systems, this works out of the box. If this command doesn't work, install or configure the various programs.
[C-c C-c] (or M-x image-toggle-display)
When in Docview-mode, this will toggle between text format and it's image representation. This can be useful for directly modifying PDF files, for instance.
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