From: John Rakestraw <lists@johnrakestraw.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT?: viewing pdf as attachment
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:56:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081118145609.62d5b485@johnrakestraw.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081118144032.5c2a1032@georgetown.edu>
> Hi --
>
> I think this is not specifically an org-mode issue, but it shows up in
> org.
>
> I've started using the file attachment feature. I really like the way
> it works, except that it doesn't work consistently with pdf files on
> one of my computers. I can attach a pdf easily, but when I try to open
> the attachment from org-mode, acroread opens as expected but it
> doesn't open the file -- instead, I have an empty acroread window
> (the same window I get if I open acroread from the command line with
> no file specified). The program is run, but somehow the file name
> isn't passed to the program.
>
> I'm puzzled because it works as expected on my other primary computer,
> and both computers have basically the emacs and org-mode same set-up
> -- i.e., .emacs and the org-configuration files are identical. (I know
> they're identical because they're synched between computers.) So
> there's some other setting that's off. I'm hoping that someone can
> give me a hint where to look. I've come up empty in my searches.
>
> Set-up on both computers:
> - emacs 22.2.1
> - org 6.12trans
> - Fedora 8
> - fvwm window manager
Apologies for replying to my own message, but I forgot to say that when
I run "acroread some_file.pdf" from a terminal, acroread opens the file
as expected.
--
John Rakestraw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-18 19:40 OT?: viewing pdf as attachment John Rakestraw
2008-11-18 19:56 ` John Rakestraw [this message]
2008-11-18 22:11 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-11-18 22:31 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-11-18 22:43 ` John Rakestraw
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