Close the bug if you like, but my personal view is that evince should
perform a basic file format check and not just simply assume that a file
is a pdf because it has a .pdf extension to the filename. Presumably
since evince can open valid pdf's, it follows that it should be capable
of recognising
Further investigation reveals that the person sending the files to me
somehow managed to send me 5 copies of the same doc file. The pdf turned
out to also be a word doc file. So the bug is a red-herring.
If anything out of this could be called as a bug, it would be that
evince was willing to
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13257011/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13257012/ProcMaps.txt
** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13257013/ProcStatus.txt
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.pdf fails
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evince
1)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release:8.04
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
2) Evince v2.22.1
3) Expected to be able to view the .pdf
4) Opening a .pdf file, evince balks at the first
shared-mime-types
This should read shared-mime-info
Scott.
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.pdf fails to open: Unhandled MIME type: application/x-ole-storage
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214076
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