From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: John Rakestraw <lists@johnrakestraw.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT?: viewing pdf as attachment
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:11:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpwcznut.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20081118145609.62d5b485@johnrakestraw.com
John Rakestraw <lists@johnrakestraw.com> writes:
>> 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.
I'm assuming this is a Linux system...
This is probably a MIME handling setup issue between your two machines.
Check your mailcap settings (/etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap probably).
If it's Windows...well you're on your own ;)
-Bernt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 22:11 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
2008-11-18 22:11 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2008-11-18 22:31 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-11-18 22:43 ` John Rakestraw
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