Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.
On Sunday 07 February 2016 07:28:54 Wilko Fokken wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 01:26:30PM -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
>
> (Are your access rights ok?)
If he has just now downloaded "afile.pdf", I have run into that too, some
sites are new feeding you a dummy html file when you click on the
download link and save-as. I've had to go back to the site and use a
different method, that small html file, when a winderz machine execs it,
gets the real file. Its a PITA, they are doing that I presume to inflate
the hit count. Those sites should be named and shamed IMO.
How about we start that list with CBSNEWS.com and their use of a cache
server that calls itself "varnish cache server" They put up a url to a
story thats north of 220 chars long, but the cache server is setup to
reject any request over 80 chars long. So you register the hit, but
they don't have to pay for the bandwidth to serve an interesting news
tidbit because all we see is "request entity too long, along with a guru
number that changes when you hit the f5 key to see if it will reload and
work. Don't bother, it won't. Googling for it gets 280,000 hits.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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