On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:43:25PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:09:09 +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:03:07AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 14:23:27 +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > > > Evince itself opens OK, but when I open the file dialog with its default > > > > filter of "All Documents", it doesn't see any. If I remove the filter > > > > to "All Files", it sees the pdfs but when I select one to open, it pops > > > > up an error: > > > > > > > > Unable to open document > > > > Unhandled MIME type 'application/octet-stream' > > I just ran strace on evince and opened a PDF file. The only "magic" > files which evince tried to access were ~/.local/share/mime/magic and > /usr/local/share/mime/magic (neither of which is present on my system). > Maybe you can generate one of these two files to make evince recognize > the PDFs. I have no idea about the required format, therefore I would > simply try to use what I see in /usr/share/mime/magic: > > $ grep -aA1 pdf /usr/share/mime/magic > [60:application/pdf] > >0=%PDF- > > There are two non-printing bytes hidden in grep's output above, between > the "=" and the "%" sign in the second line: > > $ grep -aA1 pdf /usr/share/mime/magic | hd -C > 00000000 5b 36 30 3a 61 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 69 6f 6e 2f |[60:application/| > 00000010 70 64 66 5d 0a 3e 30 3d 00 05 25 50 44 46 2d 0a |pdf].>0=..%PDF-.| > 00000020
Thanks, Florian, Its too much like work to get Gnome to do anything useful. I've purged the lot. I'll stick with xpdf and kpdf. Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
