Managed to solve it: in gnome-control-center, I opened the application/pdf thing and entered "acroread" into the program to execute field. Now at least I can "open with Acroread" from within Evo.
Izzy. > > Do you have the correct mime-settings for pdf? > > If you dont have it, install the gnome-control-center and change the > > "File types and programs" under Advanced. > > You should do "Add File Type", Mime type application/pdf, extension > > and as "Program to run" your favorit pdf viewer. > > Tried that (I have the same prob here). As soon as I hit "OK" it says, a > Mime-Type of the same type already exists - so the problem must be > somewhere else. > > > You should also set a icon. If all is correct this icon will be > > displayed from evo for the attached pdf. > > It is - and that's the strange thing. Attachment is Base64 encoded and > has mime-type "application/pdf" (checked that, since there's also > "application/x-pdf" running around). > > > Hope this helps, > > Armin Bauer > > Unfortunately it didn't. Considering the thread on the inline jpg images > not being displayed, both may have the same reason. More strange (see my > previous post) is that Evo announces the attachment as "Adope Portable > Document Format" (notice the spelling of "Adope"), and I couldn't find > that spelling anywhere in the gnome2 share directory > (/opt/gnome2/share). But in fact, I meanwhile found it browsing the apps > in gnome-control-center -- don't know where it stores those > informations. As viewer it states "View as GGV Postscript Document > Control" - what is that? Since I run Evo under KDE3, maybe this thing is > just not installed? Red-Carpet finds nothing when I search for "GGV". > Any idea? > > Izzy. -- Itzchak Rehberg http://www.qumran.org/homes/izzy/ http://www.izzysoft.de/ "We have joy, we have fun, we boot Linux on our SUN..." _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
