From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:22:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sk905cp3.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1266.1266220709.14305.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
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.
--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-17 11:22 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 [this message]
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
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