On 5/15/05, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would like to set Acroread as the default pdf viewer of Epiphany. > > > Could somebody here please help me? I am running KDE 3.3 on Mandriva > > > LE2005. > > > > First: Are you running the commercial edition of LE2005? If you are, did > > you install the Acrobat Reader 7 package from the installation CD/DVD? > > It should correctly install Acroread for integration with Mandriva. If > > you are using the package from Adobe, it might need a little more manual > > tweaking. > > > > Although you may run Epiphany under KDE, it is designed to be run in > > conjunction with the GNOME desktop environment. Epiphany will therefore > > pick whatever application for a certain document type is specified as > > the preferred handler in GNOME. You could try to run Nautilus (perhaps > > you will have to log in in a GNOME session), right click a PDF file, > > select Properties, go to the Open With tab and all available PDF readers > > should be listed there. Select the one you want and Epiphany should use > > this from that moment on. > > > > If you have any more feedback or questions, don't hesitate to ask. > > > > P.S. If you like Epiphany, you may also like Evince, the new GNOME > > viewer for PDF and PS files. You can find it in Mandriva's contrib > > repository. > > Thanks, Reinout. The problem is that I do not have GNOME installed and > to run Nautilus I need to install a bunch of packages. Then, I would > like to ask what is the file where Epiphany goes to learn what pdf > viewer to use. I believe that would solve the problem. > > Acroread works fine on my computer, but I have not installed the > Mandriva package; I have installed the Adobe one.
At the end, I decided to install Nautilus and, after having followed your suggestion, the problem was solved. Thanks a lot, Reinout. Paul _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
