FC5 mozilla/firefox can't openb .pdf files

[Yuandan Zhang]

On 6/13/06, Paul Erickson <paule at sfu.ca> wrote:
>
> Steven I Usdansky wrote:
>
> >Install evince and mozplugger (if you haven't already), and modify
> >the application/pdf section of /etc/mozpluggerrc to look something like:
> >
> >application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
> >application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
> >text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
> >text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
> >        ACROREAD()
> >        repeat noisy stream swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
> >        repeat noisy swallow(kpdf) fill: kpdf "$file"
> >        repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
> >        GV()
> >
> >No more application/octet-stream problems
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Steven,
>
> I just checked, and evince, and mozplugger are already installed, and
> the application/pdf section of
> /etc/mozpluggerrc looks exactly like your example. What am I missing???


I found the reason is that evince can's open a pdf file if the file name is
without pdf extension name. for example, the same file with two names "
test.pdf" and "test"

evinve  test.pdf  OK
evince test CAN'T OPEN IT

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