Re: Opening pdf files in Acroread

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> writes:

> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
>> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 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.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have this (Debian Testing)
>
> ,----[ /etc/mailcap ]
> | application/pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; 
> description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf
> | application/x-pdf; /usr/bin/xpdf '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; 
> description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf
> `----
>
> Pressing 'e' on an attached pdf opens xpdf for me.
>
> What does "C-h v mailcap-mime-data" give for you?
> Here is my relevant output:
>
> Value: 
> (("application"
>   ("vnd\\.oasis\\.opendocument\\.database"
>
> [...]
>
>   ("pdf"
>    (viewer . "/usr/bin/xpdf '%s'")
>    (type . "application/pdf")
>    ("nametemplate" . "%s.pdf")
>    ("description" . "Portable Document Format")
>    (test . "test \"$DISPLAY\" != \"\""))
>   ("x-pdf"
>    (viewer . "/usr/bin/xpdf '%s'")
>    (type . "application/x-pdf")
>    ("nametemplate" . "%s.pdf")
>    ("description" . "Portable Document Format")
>    (test "test" "\"$DISPLAY\"" "!=" "\"\""))
>   ("pdf"
>    (viewer . "fbgs -c '%s'")
>    (type . "application/pdf")
>    ("needsterminal" . t)
>    (test))
>
> [...]
>
> hth

This little function will give you the command used by mailcap for a
given file:

(defun get-mailcap-for-file (filename)
  "Get the command to use for FILENAME from mailcap file.
The command is like <command %s> and is meant to use with `format'."
  (let* ((ext  (file-name-extension filename))
         (mime (when ext (mailcap-extension-to-mime ext))))
    (when mime (mailcap-mime-info mime))))

(get-mailcap-for-file "foo.pdf")
==> "xpdf %s"

-- 
Thierry Volpiatto