PDF problem
Brent
brent-hughes at shaw.ca
Thu May 28 19:54:08 UTC 2009
Generally,
Hotmail is not an email client for you in particular but for the entire
membership of Hotmail.com. As such there are, most likely, restrictions
placed on how attachments are handled. In the Microsoft world email
attachments are a huge security risk. Perhaps hotmail has enabled some
global restrictions tht only allow for a download of these attachments
so that the integrity of hotmail is not compromised.
An email client for you would be Thunderbird or Eudora, both of which
are available through the Synaptic Package Manager. You can configure
either to pick up your Hotmail messages and get direct management of
attachments.
BTW, changing the download location is as easy as clicking on the words
'file system' as they appear in the edit/pref/general tab. This should
open a menu and let you choose from what is available. In my case the
choices are ... file system; desktop; and then a list of the multiple
partitions as mounted by the OS. Just click on desktop and apply the
change by either clicking on 'apply' if shown or by closing the
preferences window.
B
ray house wrote:
> Alright in Edit, preferences, the downloads are in " File System" and
> I cant seem to change that to Desktop, no matter, I have found them in
> tmp. At least I now where they are.There they are already opened.
> Still why are they not opened from the email program? Thanks a lot for
> the help Brent. Ray
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:52:17 -0600
> From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: PDF problem
>
> In Epiphany it is under Edit/Preferences under the General tab. After
> downloading and installing it I see the default download location is
> to the Desktop. Any PDF you have downloaded is now on your desktop.
> Right click on the file and choose Properties. Find the Open tab and
> then specify the program you want to use to open PDF files with. That
> should do it.
> Brent
>
> ray house wrote:
>
> Ok Brent, when I go: tools in epiphany all I get is Extensions,
> java console, python console no downloads. Ray
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:24:13 -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
>
> OK, that and your other explanation helps a bit.
>
> You are using a web based or "webmail" application so of course
> you get and read your mail through a browser. I don't use these
> so I cannot help with it use.
>
> However after you have downloaded the PDF, can you find it? If not
> open the download window from within Epiphany (tools/download) and
> check to see where it is being saved. Once you locate it, right
> click on it to choose Properties. Then choose the Open with tab to
> select which program you would like to associate with PDF files.
> From then on in the OS will open PDFs with that program.
>
> Brent
>
> ray house wrote:
>
> Hotmail. Ray
>
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> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:56:46 -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
>
> 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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