Re: Multi image PDF continuous mode

[Stefan Kangas]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> Now when looking at this problem from another point of view,
> browsing a list of image files is what image-dired.el
> is intended to do.  After doc-view generates a gallery
> of PDF images, image-dired could be invoked on the output
> directory of PNG images, and indeed in this case
> the window layout of image-dired looks like what most
> PDF viewers do: on the left side there is a narrow window
> with thumbnails of PDF pages, and on the right side
> a larger window with PDF pages.

Yes, we should be able to do this, and make it work nicely.  I might be
able to help on the image-dired.el side.

> PS: Actually, there is some weird problem in image-dired: when
> the thumbnail window is resized to a width less than half-frame,
> then image-dired creates a new thumbnail window.  But surely
> this could be fixed.

Indeed, I have noticed that too.  It's on my TODO-list, if no one beats
me to it.