Re: Setting Acroread as the default pdf viewer

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hello Paul,

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Paul Smith wrote:

> I would like to set Acroread as the default pdf viewer of Epiphany.
> Could somebody here please help me? I am running KDE 3.3 on Mandriva
> LE2005.

First: Are you running the commercial edition of LE2005? If you are, did 
you install the Acrobat Reader 7 package from the installation CD/DVD? 
It should correctly install Acroread for integration with Mandriva. If 
you are using the package from Adobe, it might need a little more manual 
tweaking.

Although you may run Epiphany under KDE, it is designed to be run in 
conjunction with the GNOME desktop environment. Epiphany will therefore 
pick whatever application for a certain document type is specified as 
the preferred handler in GNOME. You could try to run Nautilus (perhaps 
you will have to log in in a GNOME session), right click a PDF file, 
select Properties, go to the Open With tab and all available PDF readers 
should be listed there. Select the one you want and Epiphany should use 
this from that moment on.

If you have any more feedback or questions, don't hesitate to ask.

P.S. If you like Epiphany, you may also like Evince, the new GNOME 
viewer for PDF and PS files. You can find it in Mandriva's contrib 
repository.

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen