From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQwEL-0006rv-DW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:04:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6CB9E06B3; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9E3E06B3 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so5849390rvf.46 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:04:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FQ01onGy+1QOrqSlTSM3tUmC0Vf3tOJH4+YW0dhTOcE=; b=YQViyKIiMffem3Zz9iC5coXs23WvEgfnCRw6RlPFTCVtgbVhlKJdnMxmwHHKtbs2NA 7Zb06w1ApBtXerKNzGDBc1/r1WJuhRuLmd4e7nhaYSIHPTW0uUdn5xoSMf70UBvfXSuG wyzPBmIrVr/RdMC6AqCEMBQKct1Blt0ILqhOI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bfsSGSBwHXQolKWmJ6UIgP8SjKXMNgD4mZWCGZTk14dxDSjG+I+orDK7p7rUrSeaFZ Cz26EBKwxSrBRSG3t3hrIqfuAeh8bBjGbpf75cb28eWaDi9EL0yC+fObl3HNn+LIBekL b6ZelRGjlc+X7LDCCTqhwO4UB999w/Q8tVRz4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.50.11 with SMTP id c11mr6046754rvk.28.1232856255035; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:04:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <497B88E3.2060606@gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10901241209u5dd67b66rd917845996a0ff06@mail.gmail.com> <497B88E3.2060606@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:04:15 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs From: Chris Thomas To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f0c36262-2133-4d91-ae8b-0cd0649d0b5d X-Archives-Hash: 608e6a2651111e0504c769cc075726fe Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure there's no pdf use flag. Make sure Evince is listed as the default application for pdfs in your web browser. -Chris On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Saphirus Sage wrote: > Grant wrote: >> For some reason, evince won't open PDFs anymore. I've tried different >> versions of evince, poppler, and shared-mime-info, but evince says: >> >> "File type PDF document (application/pdf) is not supported" >> >> epdfview works, but it segfaults when trying to open shipping labels >> from usps.com. Does anyone have any ideas on getting evince back to >> normal? I did try deleting .gnome2/evince. >> >> - Grant >> >> > I've always preferred xpdf just for simplicity, but be sure you have > 'pdf' in your USE flags for make.conf either way. That would probably > handle the error of pdf being an unsupported file type. > >