On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 19:03 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote: > I have Fedora 11 X86_64 and when I get a PDF in email via Thunderbird > I double click the PDF attachment and it pops up with : > > "somefile.pdf could not be opened, because the associated helper > application does not exist. Change the association in your > preferences." Have a look at the source for a problem message, and look for a content-type header above the PDF attachment. If it's a PDF content type, you've got a problem with associating the right program with the file. If it's octet-stream, the mail author stuffed it up, and you're left with manually saving the file and opening it with something else. Octet-stream is a generic content type for ANY type of binary file. It simply means this file is some sort of binary. You can't associate a program with that type, because it could be used for anything. You could try associating it with a PDF viewer, then you'd get stuck, again, when someone sent you a JPEG, or document, as octet-stream, later on. If you use Gnome, you could try associating it with gnome-open, and hope that it can handle the file type, itself, as a middle man. This is a common problem, and it'd be helpful if mail programs let you set up a list of open-with program handlers for unidentified binary files (e.g. open with evince, open with eog, open with openoffice.org) that would pop-up when you clicked on such attachments, letting you choose the most likely one. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
