Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread

[Cecil Westerhof]

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

>> I am working with 'GNU Emacs 23.1.1' and 'Gnus v5.13'. When clicking on
>> an inline .pdf file I get a message like:
>>     Displaying gv -safer /tmp/emm.31402kGI/file.pdf...done
>>
>> But nothing is displayed. How can I make gnus open the .pdf file with
>> Acroread?
> Not sure from where you try to open file, but adding a line like this in
> your ~/.mailcap should help:
>
> ,----[ mailcap entry ]
> | application/pdf; acroread %s
> `----

That file was not on my system. The file /etc/mailcap was, but had no
entry for pdf. I made the .mailcap file with the named entry, but to no
avail.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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