On Sat, 30 Jan 2016, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. > > evince afile.pdf > > A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open. > "Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf". > File type HTML document (text/html) is not supported > > OK, but the command is not to open an HTML. It is "evince afile.pdf". > > Does anyone have an explanation or solution?
Could be afile.pdf is really mislabeled and is an HTML file. Will it open in a browser? Or open it in a text editor and look at the code. HTML code will say so in the very first few lines. B