From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Rose Subject: Re: OT?: viewing pdf as attachment Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:31:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87myfwk6oi.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> References: <20081118144032.5c2a1032@georgetown.edu> <20081118145609.62d5b485@johnrakestraw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Z3a-00037N-Lw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:28:26 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Z3Z-00036m-9F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:28:26 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41003 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2Z3Z-00036h-05 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:28:25 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:41635) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2Z3Y-0003og-V6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:28:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081118145609.62d5b485@johnrakestraw.com> (John Rakestraw's message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:56:09 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 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. -- Sebastian Rose, EMMA STIL - mediendesign, Niemeyerstr.6, 30449 Hannover Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 36 58 472 Fax: +49 (0)1805 - 233633 - 11044 mobil: +49 (0)173 - 83 93 417 Http: www.emma-stil.de