Has anyone found a work around for this issue? Its been around for quite
a while and we have several staff members that are affected by it too.

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Title:
  FDF file misrecognised as MATLAB script/function

Status in shared-mime-info package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  (I don't know which component of Gnome is responsible for this
  problem).  This is in Intrepid

  My bank provides tax information via an FDF file.  Internally it
  points to a PDF with named fields and supplies values for the fields.
  It has a text header identifying it as FDF.  The file command gets
  things right:

  $ file tax.fdf
  tax.fdf: FDF document, version 1.2

  Gnome however claims it is a "MATLAB script/function", as shown in
  Nautilus.  What I would expect is for it to be recognised as an FDF
  just like file does, and hopefully to be associated with something
  useful.

  The file starts like this with the <E2><E3><CF><D3> being bytes of
  those hex values.

  ==== 8< ====
  %FDF-1.2
  %<E2><E3><CF><D3>
  1 0 obj
  << 
  /FDF << /Fields 2 0 R /F 
(https://personal.vanguard.com/taxForms/pdfs/TXFRM_1099DIV_1page.pdf)>> 
  >> 
  endobj
  2 0 obj
  [ 
  << /T (REGISTRATION_ADDR_1)/V (My Name)>> << /T (REGISTRATION_ADDR_2)/V (My 
address)>> 
  ==== 8< ====

  It then follows with more fields.  If I rename the file to have a .pdf
  extension then Nautilus says the type is "PDF document" and tries to
  open it in "Document Viewer" (is that evince?).  The Document Viewer
  then says "File type MATLAB script/function (text/x-matlab) is not
  supported".

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