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Re: Doc-view failing to generate image
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Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: Doc-view failing to generate image |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:34:31 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Edward Lilley <ejlilley@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Edward,
> I'm getting a funny error when trying to open (simple C-x C-f) PDF
> files in doc-view mode. The png appears in /tmp/docview500/foo, but
> then the image doesn't actually appear in the buffer -- and then
> *Messages* shows the error:
>
> ImageMagick error: NoDecodeDelegateForThisImageFormat
> \ `/tmp/docview500/obsmltest.pdf-07534b262c8761286817c76762acef2c/page-1.png'
> \ @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/550 [2 times]
>
> (line breaks added)
>
> ...which is a bit baffling.
It seems your ImageMagick hasn't been compiled with PNG support. Does
$ identify -list format
include PNG with mode "rw-"? Also,
$ identify -list configure
should include --with-png in CONFIGURE and png in DELEGATES.
What distro are you using?
Bye,
Tassilo