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From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT?: viewing pdf as attachment
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:31:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myfwk6oi.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081118145609.62d5b485@johnrakestraw.com> (John Rakestraw's message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:56:09 -0500")

Hi John,

there have been several threads to this concern. Maybe searching them
helps a little (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/). This
here seemed to help in a similar case (~/.mailcap):


http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2007-09/msg00534.html



Regards,

  Sebastian



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.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 22:28 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
2008-11-18 22:31   ` Sebastian Rose [this message]
2008-11-18 22:43     ` John Rakestraw

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