Re: [PATCH] nextstep: Emacs can be used to edit PDF files

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Any chance we could change doc-view so it works without `gs` (nor
> `mupdf`) using one of the tools pre-installed in macOS?

It seems like we could, from searching the web there's apparently a tool
called "sips" that is pre-installed on macOS.  I just checked my machine
and I have it there.

AFAICT, you can't convert only one page with it, only the full page.
But it seems to be a hard requirement of a
`doc-view-pdf->png-converter-function' that we can specify a page number
to it, so I'm not sure how tricky it is to fit into what we have now.

Maybe someone more familiar with doc-view could take a look.