you might also try this: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3105/how-to-use-an-external-program-as-the-default-way-to-open-pdfs-from-emacs/3106
John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:26 AM Joseph Vidal-Rosset < joseph.vidal.ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le jeu. 07/04/19 juil. 2019 à 07:44:08 , John Kitchin > <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> a envoyé ce message: > > I don't think org-ref is responsible, except that it installs pdf-tools. > When I click on a link like > > [[./2019-07-04.pdf]] it opens in acrobat for me. > > > > I don't have anything fancy > > org-file-apps is a variable defined in `org.el'. > > Its value is > > ((auto-mode . emacs) ("\\.mm\\'" . default) ("\\.x?html?\\'" . default) > > ("\\.pdf\\'" . default)) > > > > which I guess means on osx that it gets opened with "open". > > > > It looks like you can do this > > > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > > (setf (cdr (assoc "\\.pdf\\'" org-file-apps)) "evince %s") > > #+END_SRC > > > > to make it open in evince. > > Dear John, > > Thanks for your reply. In fact my problem is only at the moment with > pdf links in gnus, not in usual org files. (Maybe I should switch for > mu4e, but I hesitate and I would be happy to find a tutorial to do it > with gmail.) > > I have solved temporarily the problem with eimp : > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2433/shrink-zoom-scale-images-in-image-mode > > and the pdf in emacs are now more easily readable for me. > > Best wishes, and again, to Colin and to you, many thanks. > > -- > Jo >
