Re: Docview question

Colin Baxter <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:19:42 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <[email protected]> writes:

    >> I am at a loss to understand the meaning of this message,
    >> particularly since (1) there is no error apparently (2) I am
    >> generating a dvi not pdf file (3) the message only appears "now
    >> and again", and on those occasions I not aware of doing anything
    >> differently. Can someone enlighten me?

    > Can't help directly, but IIRC the "dvi => png" path is implemented
    > by converting the DVI to PDF first (which means that in most cases
    > you're better off generating a PDF directly rather than a DVI
    > file).

Thank you for your help. I hadn't appreciated the dvi-->pdf path in
docview, so the message makes a little more sense to me. I take your
point about generating a pdf directly.

Colin.