From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13666 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 12:22:32 +0100 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87sk905cp3.fsf@linux-lqcw.site> References: <87sk93h3az.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 1266406836 9588 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2010 11:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:40:36 +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 12:40:32 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 1NhiGb-0002Sk-Me for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53650 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NhiGb-0002yR-73 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:40:29 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kn1/gmuLp7YH3S9wMbE1BgErRzs= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 Original-X-Trace: 1266405726 news.xs4all.nl 22913 decebal/[::ffff:84.53.123.169]:25147 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84049 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:13666 Archived-At: Thierry Volpiatto 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