Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.
On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince.
>
> evince afile.pdf
>
> A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open.
> "Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf".
> File type HTML document (text/html) is not supported
>
> OK, but the command is not to open an HTML. It is "evince afile.pdf".
>
> Does anyone have an explanation or solution?
Could be afile.pdf is really mislabeled and is an HTML file. Will it
open in a browser? Or open it in a text editor and look at the code.
HTML code will say so in the very first few lines.
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