GNU bug report logs - #8519
24.0.50; doc-view: allow pdftotext -layout instead of -raw

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:24:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 8519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck)
Cc: rfrancoise <at> debian.org, 8519 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8519: 24.0.50; doc-view: allow pdftotext -layout instead of
 -raw
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 14:26:46 +0200

trentbuck <at> gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes:

> doc-view supports using pdftotext on ttys.
> Unfortunately it is hard-coded to pass -raw.
> I would prefer to pass -layout.
>
> Please modify doc-view to allow me to support something like
>
>     (setq doc-view-pdftotext-program-args '("-layout" "-nopgbrk"))

Makes sense; I've now added this to Emacs 27.

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