Hi Richard, On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Richard Shann <richard.sh...@virgin.net> wrote: > Running GNU/Denemo on Mac OSX we use ev_document_factory_get_document() > to load a pdf file. On this platform (only) the call fails with the > message > > File type application/octet-stream type (application/octet-stream) is > not supported > > Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? The call is working fine on > GNU/Linux and on Windows.
Previously, I've run into the same problem when porting Evince to Windows. It has something to do with Evince' mime-type detection/handling. I think there were several issues with it. First step to fixing this is to see what this evince function returns: mime_type = ev_file_get_mime_type (uri, TRUE, error); If that returns 'application/octet-stream', I guess you need to register the pdf mime type somewhere in your OS specific mime type store. If the mime type is something like 'application/pdf', then make sure the returned mimetype is specified in the file /usr/lib/evince/4/backends/pdfdocument.evince-backend. Regards, Hib Eris That _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list evince-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list