Re: opening pdf files

[Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 16:25 -0500, Blackwell, Steve @ GSI wrote:
> There was some talk a couple of weeks ago about epiphany not openning pdf
> files sometimes. I have a similar situation but I think it is a little
> different.
> 
> I get my e-mail through a Microsoft exchange server web page. (Work - I have
> no choice) When I open a message that has a PDF as an attachment, I see the
> attachment as a link called, say, "whatever.pdf". When I click on the link I
> get this message in a dialog box:
> 
>    Download this file?
> 
>    File type "unknown".
> 
>    You have no application able to open "whatever.pdf".
>    You can download it instead.
> 
> The interesting thing is why epiphany thinks that the file type is
> "unknown".

This is an issue with the web server. The web server is supposed to tell
Epiphany what the file type is; instead, it is explicitly telling
Epiphany that the file type is "unknown", and to *not* open it
automatically.

This is a misconfiguration on the server. It was probably done because
the site administrator (in this case, maybe Microsoft?) didn't want the
PDF to be opened directly in Internet Explorer (that is, with Adobe
Acrobat Reader embedded in the web browser). There is a correct way of
achieving that behaviour, but the site doesn't implement it.

You'll have to download it and then open it, in two separate steps. I
don't think there's a workaround.

Adam