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Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread
From: |
Cecil Westerhof |
Subject: |
Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:01:15 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
>>> I am working with 'GNU Emacs 23.1.1' and 'Gnus v5.13'. When clicking on
>>> an inline .pdf file I get a message like:
>>> Displaying gv -safer /tmp/emm.31402kGI/file.pdf...done
>>>
>>> But nothing is displayed. How can I make gnus open the .pdf file with
>>> Acroread?
>> Not sure from where you try to open file, but adding a line like this in
>> your ~/.mailcap should help:
>>
>> ,----[ mailcap entry ]
>> | application/pdf; acroread %s
>> `----
>
> That file was not on my system. The file /etc/mailcap was, but had no
> entry for pdf. I made the .mailcap file with the named entry, but to no
> avail.
I closed Gnus and Emacs and started them again. Now it works.
--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof