PDF problem
Kirk Bridger
kbridger at shaw.ca
Thu May 28 18:23:45 UTC 2009
Ah, lightbulb moment for me - thanks for the clarification.
So you're using Epiphany. It downloads to a specific directory (Check
the preferences dialogue). If that is set to "Filesystem" then it is
actually saving it into /tmp. You can find your PDFs there and open
with Evince manually I think.
As for why Epiphany is not passing the PDF properly to Evince I don't
know. It works on my machine but I don't use Epiphany and can't help
much more, sorry.
I could suggest you use Firefox instead of Epiphany, but I'm not sure
yet another application in the mix is going to help you here.
Kirk
ray house wrote:
> Hotmail. Ray
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:56:46 -0600
> From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: PDF problem
>
> Which Email program are you using?
>
> B
>
> ray house wrote:
>
> Yes in the email program, I open the email with the attachement.
> I click on the attachement and I get a download window I wait till
> the download is complete and then no matter what I click, nothing
> happens! Ray
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:23:31 -0600
> From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca <mailto:brent-hughes at shaw.ca>
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: PDF problem
>
> While in the email program?
>
> Epiphany is a browser so clicking on a PDF will save the file,
> hence the download window, unless you associate another action
> with that file type. Once a file is downloaded right click to get
> the menu. Choose Properties and then go to the Open tab to select
> Open Office, Evince or Acrobat to associate with this type of
> file. Once the OS know how to deal with that file it should open
> them directly without the download.
>
> You wrote originally..." i am using Ubuntu 9.04 with Epiphany and
> cant read PDF from emails" and, as I understand it, this is
> confusing as emails do not have anything to do with your browser.
>
> Brent
>
> ray house wrote:
>
> Nothing happens when I right click! or double click. Ray
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:51:14 -0600
> From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca <mailto:brent-hughes at shaw.ca>
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: PDF problem
>
> Right click, Ray....should open small menu with open as a choice.
> B
>
> ray house wrote:
>
> When I click on the attachement I get the download window
> and I see that the download is complete(100%). What Open? Ray
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:56:28 -0600
> From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca <mailto:brent-hughes at shaw.ca>
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> <mailto:ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: PDF problem
>
> What happens when you right click on the attachment in the
> email program? What happens when you choose Open?
> Brent
>
> ray house wrote:
>
> Hi Brent, I have Open Office too but my download
> window wont respond to any click.
> Ray
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:05:55 -0600
> From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca <mailto:brent-hughes at shaw.ca>
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> <mailto:ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: PDF problem
>
> ray house wrote:
>
> Hi, i am using Ubuntu 9.04 with Epiphany and cant
> read PDF from emails. With synaptic I downloaded
> Acrobat 9.0 but when I open Acrobat it says to go
> to Edit, preferences, internet and at bottom of
> window I get: please specify the directory
> containing the HTML rendering library(
> libgtkembedoz.so or libxul.so) this library is
> required for rendering HTML content in Adobe Reader:
> At this point using synaptic I seem to go nowhere,
> in other words I am lost! Any help please, Ray
>
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> I use Open Office and all email attached PDFs work
> just fine and open automatically with a double click.
> Brent
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