Re: evince unable to open pdf
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.
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