From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Cross Subject: Re: pdf files with openwith only, and only this. Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:15:25 +1000 Message-ID: <87y31dmlxw.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ef36xdxk.fsf@yandex.com> <87a7dudj8c.fsf@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjAwz-0005zd-Pf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:15:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjAwy-0002OA-Jd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:15:37 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x630.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::630]:39761) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjAwy-0002ND-BR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:15:36 -0400 Received: by mail-pl1-x630.google.com with SMTP id b7so3672026pls.6 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2019 16:15:35 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87a7dudj8c.fsf@debian> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Cc: Colin Baxter , John Kitchin Joseph Vidal-Rosset writes: > Le jeu. 07/04/19 juil. 2019 =C3=A0 07:44:08 , John Kit= chin > a envoy=C3=A9 ce message: >> I don't think org-ref is responsible, except that it installs pdf-tools.= When I click on a link like=20 >> [[./2019-07-04.pdf]] it opens in acrobat for me. >> >> I don't have anything fancy >> org-file-apps is a variable defined in `org.el'. >> Its value is >> ((auto-mode . emacs) ("\\.mm\\'" . default) ("\\.x?html?\\'" . default) >> ("\\.pdf\\'" . default)) >> >> which I guess means on osx that it gets opened with "open". >> >> It looks like you can do this >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp >> (setf (cdr (assoc "\\.pdf\\'" org-file-apps)) "evince %s") >> #+END_SRC >> >> to make it open in evince. > > Dear John, > > Thanks for your reply. In fact my problem is only at the moment with > pdf links in gnus, not in usual org files. (Maybe I should switch for > mu4e, but I hesitate and I would be happy to find a tutorial to do it > with gmail.) > > I have solved temporarily the problem with eimp : > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2433/shrink-zoom-scale-images-i= n-image-mode > > and the pdf in emacs are now more easily readable for me.=20 > > Best wishes, and again, to Colin and to you, many thanks.=20 My guess is the problem is with doc-view mode and possibly guns setup. I had a similar issue some years back, but cannot quite remember how I resolved it. My problem was that I had elisp I wrote which would use external viewers for various document types (e.g. word doc, pdf, etc), but when I tried to use it, Emacs would jump in the middle and use docView mode to display it inside emacs itself. >From memroy, the basic fix was to turn off doc-view-mode (posibly check out the customization group). With respect to gnus (and other mailers), most of them include some sort of variable which sets which mime types can be displayed internally. If you don't want to completely disable doc-view-mode, you should be able to change this setting to say that PDFs are tro be displayed externally using whatever program is associated with that mime type. hth Tim --=20 Tim Cross