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I have emacs 27.2 installed on my M1 Macbook pro. With a lot of pdfs when I first visit the file from dired, the font rendering is badly messed up -- a lot of the characters are replaced either by white space and/or boxes. However, if I type C-c C-c, after a bit of a pause, the rendering gets cleaned up. I'm also using gs version 9.56.1 which is installed via homebrew. I don't have this problem on another mac which is an intel mac. Clearly the fonts are present, since typing C-C C-C fixes it. Are there any suggestions as to how I can fix this behavior?

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  • I don't know the answer, but I recommend looking into pdf-tools which IMO is so much nicer than doc-view for viewing PDFs inside Emacs.
    – phils
    Commented Jun 24, 2022 at 0:00
  • I'm actually already using pdf-tools.
    – Victor Miller
    Commented Jun 27, 2022 at 23:54
  • Oh, so why are you interested in doc-view then?
    – phils
    Commented Jun 28, 2022 at 1:21
  • Perhaps I'm confused. If I installed pdf-tools, does that take over from doc-view when I visit a file in a dired list?
    – Victor Miller
    Commented Jun 28, 2022 at 20:45
  • It should take over any time you visit a PDF file in Emacs, however you did it. If you're not seeing PDFView in the mode line as the major mode (pdf-view-mode) then I don't think you have pdf-tools set up properly?
    – phils
    Commented Jun 28, 2022 at 22:35

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