Opening pdf files in Acroread

Opening pdf files in Acroread

[Cecil Westerhof]

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?

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> 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
`----

-- 
Thierry Volpiatto

Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread

[Cecil Westerhof]

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

Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread

[Cecil Westerhof]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> 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

Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread

[Memnon Anon]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.

Hi,

I have this (Debian Testing)

,----[ /etc/mailcap ]
| application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf
| application/x-pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf
`----

Pressing 'e' on an attached pdf opens xpdf for me.

What does "C-h v mailcap-mime-data" give for you?
Here is my relevant output:

Value: 
(("application"
  ("vnd\\.oasis\\.opendocument\\.database"

[...]

  ("pdf"
   (viewer . "/usr/bin/xpdf '%s'")
   (type . "application/pdf")
   ("nametemplate" . "%s.pdf")
   ("description" . "Portable Document Format")
   (test . "test \"$DISPLAY\" != \"\""))
  ("x-pdf"
   (viewer . "/usr/bin/xpdf '%s'")
   (type . "application/x-pdf")
   ("nametemplate" . "%s.pdf")
   ("description" . "Portable Document Format")
   (test "test" "\"$DISPLAY\"" "!=" "\"\""))
  ("pdf"
   (viewer . "fbgs -c '%s'")
   (type . "application/pdf")
   ("needsterminal" . t)
   (test))

[...]

hth

Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> writes:

> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
>> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 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.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have this (Debian Testing)
>
> ,----[ /etc/mailcap ]
> | application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf
> | application/x-pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf
> `----
>
> Pressing 'e' on an attached pdf opens xpdf for me.
>
> What does "C-h v mailcap-mime-data" give for you?
> Here is my relevant output:
>
> Value: 
> (("application"
>   ("vnd\\.oasis\\.opendocument\\.database"
>
> [...]
>
>   ("pdf"
>    (viewer . "/usr/bin/xpdf '%s'")
>    (type . "application/pdf")
>    ("nametemplate" . "%s.pdf")
>    ("description" . "Portable Document Format")
>    (test . "test \"$DISPLAY\" != \"\""))
>   ("x-pdf"
>    (viewer . "/usr/bin/xpdf '%s'")
>    (type . "application/x-pdf")
>    ("nametemplate" . "%s.pdf")
>    ("description" . "Portable Document Format")
>    (test "test" "\"$DISPLAY\"" "!=" "\"\""))
>   ("pdf"
>    (viewer . "fbgs -c '%s'")
>    (type . "application/pdf")
>    ("needsterminal" . t)
>    (test))
>
> [...]
>
> hth

This little function will give you the command used by mailcap for a
given file:

(defun get-mailcap-for-file (filename)
  "Get the command to use for FILENAME from mailcap file.
The command is like <command %s> and is meant to use with `format'."
  (let* ((ext  (file-name-extension filename))
         (mime (when ext (mailcap-extension-to-mime ext))))
    (when mime (mailcap-mime-info mime))))

(get-mailcap-for-file "foo.pdf")
==> "xpdf %s"

-- 
Thierry Volpiatto

Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread

[Slackrat]

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