I decided to hack on evince a bit. I put a few lines of code in to set the evince module dir based on environment variable. I am also going to force all files to be pdf if the filename ends with .pdf so that we don't have to mess wity mime stuff.
On Mar 18, 2013 5:58 PM, "Jeremiah Benham" <
address@hidden> wrote:
On 3/18/13, Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jeremiah -
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> I have received this very informative reply from Hib Eris - would you like
> me to put a print-out of ev_file_get_mime_type() into the sources
> or are you able to do
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> call ev_file_get_mime_type ("file:///tmp/Denemou<xxx>/denemoprintB.pdf", 1,
> NULL)
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> while in gdb? (The temp directory will be <xxx> and you need either A or B
> depending).
I ran this in gdb:
(gdb) print (char *) ev_file_get_mime_type
("file:///tmp/DenemoYBsSdY/denemoprintB.pdf", 1, NULL)
This is what it returned:
$3 = 0x76836c0 "text/plain"
I ran:
file /tmp/DenemoYBsSdY/denemoprintB.pdf
it returned:
/tmp/DenemoYBsSdY/denemoprintB.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
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> or can you just check /usr/lib/evince/4/backends/pdfdocument.evince-backend
It looks ok. At the end it has:
MimeType=application/pdf;application/x-bzpdf;application/x-gzpdf;application/x-ext-pdf
I appended:
;text/plain;application/octet-stream
Unfortunately it is still not loading. I am going to have to do some
tinkering I guess. I am not sure if this pdfdocument.evince-backend is
even being read. I will let you know later my progress or lack of.
Jeremiah
> first (I would guess it is ok)
> and look at the other fix - the "register the pdf mime type somewhere in
> your OS specific mime type
> store" thing.
> The email exchange follows
> Richard
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> Hi Richard,
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> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Richard Shann <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> Running GNU/Denemo on Mac OSX we use ev_document_factory_get_document()
>> to load a pdf file. On this platform (only) the call fails with the
>> message
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>> File type application/octet-stream type (application/octet-stream) is
>> not supported
>>
>> Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? The call is working fine on
>> GNU/Linux and on Windows.
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> Previously, I've run into the same problem when porting Evince to
> Windows. It has something to do with Evince' mime-type
> detection/handling. I think there were several issues with it.
>
> First step to fixing this is to see what this evince function returns:
>
> mime_type = ev_file_get_mime_type (uri, TRUE, error);
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> If that returns 'application/octet-stream', I guess you need to
> register the pdf mime type somewhere in your OS specific mime type
> store.
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> If the mime type is something like 'application/pdf', then make sure
> the returned mimetype is specified in the file
> /usr/lib/evince/4/backends/pdfdocument.evince-backend.
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> Regards,
>
> Hib Eris
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