Re: pdfs and mutt
-- Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane@xtrinsic.com> wrote
(on Monday, 17 March 2003, 06:06 PM -0500):
> I'd like to be able to open PDFs from mutt. Right now when I try to "v"iew
> a PDF it shows me a stream of text in the mutt window. (Would it make a
> difference if the PDF was sent from a Mac vs. a PC?)
>
> I've added:
> .mime.types add the line:
>
> application/pdf pdf
>
> In .mailcap add the lines:
>
> # Use xpdf to view PDF files.
> application/pdf; xpdf -err %s
>
> according to the man pages....but it's not working. Am I supposed to
> source something for this to work? I thought just closing and then
> re-opening mutt would be enough.
In your ~/.mailcap file, try:
application/pdf; xpdf %s; nametemplate=%s.pdf
and see if that works.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
http://matthew.weierophinney.net
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