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From: Slackrat <g-no-ose@azurservers.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:20:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3xyuejn.fsf@darkstar.azurservers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sk905cp3.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> (Cecil Westerhof's message of "Wed\, 17 Feb 2010 12\:22\:32 +0100")

Cecil Westerhof a écrit profondement:

| Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> 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.

Try this - good for acroread and xpdf

http://82.242.109.147:6080/unix/mailcap.txt

-- 
Slackrat

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-17 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-14 22:15 Cecil Westerhof
2010-02-15  7:53 ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found] ` <mailman.1266.1266220709.14305.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-02-17 11:22   ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-02-17 12:01     ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-02-17 13:02     ` Memnon Anon
2010-02-17 14:39       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-04-17 18:20     ` Slackrat [this message]

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