From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13667 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:01:15 +0100 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87aav8qdf8.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> References: <87sk93h3az.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> <87sk905cp3.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266410464 21078 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2010 12:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:41:04 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 17 13:41:01 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhjCq-0005Cf-0i for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:40:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57153 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NhjCo-0002bC-RV for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:40:38 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!feeder.news.heanet.ie!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:aeaNjusltkSgm9A+aglqosfBinQ= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: 1266408050 news.xs4all.nl 22933 decebal/[::ffff:84.53.123.169]:23507 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84050 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:13667 Archived-At: Cecil Westerhof writes: >>> I am working with 'GNU Emacs 23.1.1' and 'Gnus v5.13'. When clicking on >>> an inline .pdf file I get a message like: >>> Displaying gv -safer /tmp/emm.31402kGI/file.pdf...done >>> >>> But nothing is displayed. How can I make gnus open the .pdf file with >>> Acroread? >> Not sure from where you try to open file, but adding a line like this in >> your ~/.mailcap should help: >> >> ,----[ mailcap entry ] >> | application/pdf; acroread %s >> `---- > > That file was not on my system. The file /etc/mailcap was, but had no > entry for pdf. I made the .mailcap file with the named entry, but to no > avail. I closed Gnus and Emacs and started them again. Now it works. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof