PDF problem

[ray house]

Kirk, I went from Firefox to epiphany because I could not get videos ( youtube and such) to work with firefox and that was fixed by switching to Epiphany.  Thank you anyway,  Ray

Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:23:45 -0700
From: kbridger at shaw.ca
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: PDF problem






  


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

  

  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

    

    Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:23:31 -0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: 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

      

      Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:51:14 -0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: 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

        

        Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:56:28
-0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: 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

          

          

          Date: Thu, 28 May 2009
09:05:55
-0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: 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

            

            One at a time or all at once? Get updates from your
friends
in one
place.
          I use Open Office and all email attached PDFs
work
just
fine and open automatically with a double click.

Brent 

          

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