Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.
On Sat 30 Jan 2016 at 13:26:30 (-0800), 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?
Frequently a web link labelled as being a PDF turns out to go to
another web page where you can/may be able to download the actual PDF.
I get caught out by this when I paste the link into a wget command+,
download the file afile.pdf, and then try to open it in mc. The
response is
afile.pdf: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines
which, of course, it is.
+ wget gets the metadata, so the download obtains its correct timestamp.
Cheers,
David.
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