> On 6 May 2009, at 10:10 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > >> Skim 1.2.2 now refuses to open DVI's on my machine (10.5.6 Intel). > >> Skim 1.2.1 worked like a charm. All I did was use the Sparkle > >> update; I did not change any preferences. > >> > >> I see no mention of DVI in the release notes for the newest > >> version. Strangely I see no mention of DVI in the Skim Help, > >> either (I could have sworn there used to be stuff about Skim > >> transforming DVI into PDF in the Help). > >> > >> What's going on? I'm switching back to 1.2.1 in the meantime. > > > > Alas, reversion to 1.2.1 has not helped matters at all. I still get > > a dialog that says: The document "foo.dvi" could not be opened. Skim > > cannot open files in the "DVI Document" format. > > > > This dialog, by the way, is presented by Skim, not by the Finder. [snip] > Actually, this sounds more like a problem with your launch services > database. I think some other program conflicts with Skim for declaring > the DVI type (because Skim doesn't declare the description "DVI > Document"). Perhaps resetting LS will help, type the following in > Terminal.app on a single line: > > /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/ > Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -all > local,user,system This command didn't work (I got some indecipherable message). So I did it in Yasu. It seemed to reset things, but I still can't open DVI's.
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