Re: [Evolution] Evolution Mangles Attachments?

[Jean Neron <jneron cansyswest com>]

I think this is a SuSE 8.1/Gnome/Evolution compatibility problem.

Once I started thinking about it, my problems with PDF documents started about the time I started using 8.1. I went back to my 8.0 machine (same version of evo) and tried sending/receiving a PDF, and it worked fine.

Then I logged on to a gnome session on the 8.1 machine and using both Nautilus and Galeon I was able to navigate the local filesystem and open various PDF documents w/o a problem. In both cases, they ran acroread to open the documents. Gnome clearly knew how deal with PDFs. I also played around with the file associations in Gnome, on the off chance I missed something. 

After all this messing around, I noticed I had a  new .gnome/mime-info directory, with user.mime and user.keys files. The files contained info relating to file associations for PDF documents. I still had the old mime-types directory. On a hunch, I manually merged the data from the files in the new mime-info directory with the old mime-types directory. Presto! Now I can send/receive PDF documents w/o them getting mangled.

Unfortunately, I still can't right click & open the attachment, my only choice is to save the file. Here's the relevant parts from user.keys:

application/pdf
        default_application_id=acroread
        description=Adobe Acrobat Document
        icon_filename=/home/jean/OpenOffice.org1.0/share/icons/004_spreadsheet_document.png
        default_action_type=application
        short_list_application_user_removals=
        short_list_application_user_additions=acroread

Here's user.mime:

application/pdf
        ext: pdf
        description: Adobe Acrobat Document
        deleted:

I'm happy because I can send PDF's again. I'd be happier if I could open attachments from with evo instead of having to save them first.

Thanks.

Jean


On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:14, Not Zed wrote: 
> > I think maybe the problem is that it is being sent as a plaintext
> > attachment, rather than application/pdf?  When I attach a document,
> > Evolution (or more properly, GNOME) is correctly identifying the file
> > type--see attachment below (sorry--it's the only PDF on my disk that I'm
> > sure I have the right to redistribute!).
>
> Yeah this is the problem.  This crashed my old version of pre 1.2 i use
> in the indexer (well in iconv i think).
>
> Currently evolution does conversion to utf8 and back again for any
> text/* data, which is used for indexing and to simplify the api.  This
> is the main reason inline pgp can't be supported too ... its a bit of a
> big change, although we want to do it one day.
>
> Its probably trying to iconv the data from your locale charset (since it
> is 8 bit data and hence not us-ascii) into utf8, and then back again
> when it saves it ... which would probably just result in a mess.
>
> Workaround: fix your mime types.
>
>
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