Fedora Users — Re: FC5 mozilla/firefox can't openb .pdf files

On 6/13/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Paul Erickson wrote:

I think I got the attributions right.

> Hi Matthew,
>
> See below.
>
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>>> Paul Erickson wrote:
>>>> When I click on a link to a .pdf file I get a "Unable to open document
>>>> Unhandled MIME type: 'application/octet-stream'"
>>>
>>
>> Does this happen for every PDF or just some?
>
> As far as I can tell, it happens to every pdf.
>
>> If you click Edit -> Preferences -> Downloads -> View Actions, is PDF
>> listed? What does it say it will do in that case?
>>
> The only thing enabled is the "Open download manager"

Did you see the View Actions button?  I need to expand the window size
before it shows up.  (On the other hand, I don't have anything listed
in that window.)

>
>> Do you have evince or Acrobat Reader plugin installed? Do you have
>> mozplugger installed? Is this a 64-bit or 32-bit system?
>>
> No, Acrobat is not installed. Neither is mozplugger. This is a 32-bit system.

Pretty strange.  It looks like some of the bugs listed in the earlier post
may be relevant, but I don't have any of those problems--PDFs open just
fine.  The only thing I have that I haven't seen mentioned is the Disable
Targets for Downloads Firefox plugin.

I suppose you might try that.

as a temperary solution try this, use xpdf, instead of evince

application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
        ACROREAD()
        repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
        repeat noisy swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
        repeat noisy swallow(kpdf) fill: kpdf "$file"
        GV()

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Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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