Re: PDF breaks emacs (PDF-Tools)

[Tory S. Anderson]

Okay, sorry; I assumed it as just a half-made wiki page. Looks like it's 
actually a different package. A better link for the pdf-tools I'm using is this 
awesome package: https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools (available through 
Melpa). 

yeah, C-g provides no response. I'll can look into trying a different emacs 
version; I usually just run with whatever my Linux repo (Fedora in this case) 
provides. 

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
> Hi Tory,
>
>> I've been giving emacs PDF-Tools (very poorly documented here:
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PdfTools) a try and have been
>> thoroughly impressed.  For the majority of my needs I'm even willing
>> to switch from the system pdf viewer (the excellent Okular) to this
>> one.
>
> Huh?  The pdftools.el you've linked has no support for viewing PDFs.
> What it can do is save a buffer or region as a PDF file.  That's all.
>
> So is it possible that you are actually opening PDF files from within
> emacs and then view them using Emacs' built-in `doc-view-mode'?
>
>> But then, just when life is getting rosy, my faith is completely
>> undermined by a PDF that not only refuses to open, but causes all of
>> emacs to crash terribly. The daring user of PDF-Tools can try such a
>> file here: http://orys.us/breaksemacspdf
>
> I've just downloaded and opened that file with Emacs (current Git
> version and also 24.4) and it worked without any problem.
>
>> I have not identified what causes the problem; other PDFs with image
>> components or side-runners don't seem to be problematic, nor are PDFs
>> of hundreds (even thousands) of pages in length. But if emacs crashes
>> here, I'm not sure where else it may fail. Any suggestions? Otherwise,
>> be warned.
>>
>> Note: by "crash" I mean, utterly and indefinitely freezes without
>> warning or complaint.
>
> Well, then that's no crash. ;-)
>
> I guess you did try to hit `C-g' repeatedly to see if that breaks the
> freeze, right?
>
> Otherwise, it's a bit hard to debug from my side.  I see you use Emacs
> 24.3.  I don't have that available right now but you could try upgrading
> to 24.4 and check if the freeze occurs there, too.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo