Re: Setting Acroread as the default pdf viewer

[Paul Smith <phhs80 gmail com>]

On 5/15/05, Paul Smith <phhs80 gmail com> 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.
> 
> Thanks, Reinout. The problem is that I do not have GNOME installed and
> to run Nautilus I need to install a bunch of packages. Then, I would
> like to ask what is the file where Epiphany goes to learn what pdf
> viewer to use. I believe that would solve the problem.
> 
> Acroread works fine on my computer, but I have not installed the
> Mandriva package; I have installed the Adobe one.

At the end, I decided to install Nautilus and, after having followed
your suggestion, the problem was solved. Thanks a lot, Reinout.

Paul