From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 121789 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2019 04:00:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 121780 invoked by uid 89); 12 Oct 2019 04:00:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Languages-Length:1080, jpg, III, desktop X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:00:57 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id J8aMiAj36sAGkJ8aNiFPFY; Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:00:55 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Unable to view pdf files To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20191011181456.000025ef@illinois.edu> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <5a3d1d9c-21cb-2f6b-b540-3873c4e42372@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:00:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191011181456.000025ef@illinois.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-10/txt/msg00070.txt.bz2 On 2019-10-11 17:15, Blair, Charles E III wrote: > I have not been able to view pdf files, trying: > (1) midori only offers applications for djvu, jpg, > and dvi files. > (2) ghostscript was listed as already installed, but > gv file.pdf yields "command not found," and "man gv" > and "man ghostcript" also don't work. Neither did > re-installing. > (3) When I am running emacs and open file.pdf, I get > a display of code. If I try C-c C-c to switch on > DocView, I am told this is undefined. Install package xpdf to get xpdfreader or package qpdfview to get qpdfview. Both are offered from Open With... in PCManFM. I find xpdfreader a bit closer to what you'd expect, but both work without problems. You can also install package gv (ghostview), but it has no X desktop menu integration, and you have to manually launch this, optionally with (a) filename argument(s). -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple