Re: Problem opening file -- Ubuntu 9.04

[Ghee Teo <Ghee Teo Sun COM>]

Brett Alton wrote:
> My girlfriend is a real estate agent who I recently switched to Ubuntu
> 9.04 (surprisingly on her request).
>
> She has two websites that seem to be IE6+/Windows only, until I
> noticed that the one website didn't work with Firefox or IE7 and
> Vista...
>
> I kept playing around with the website while in Ubuntu 9.04 and trying
> to get evince to open it, but to no avail.
>
> The only way I could get the website to render the PHP code to create
> the on-the-fly PDF was to have Adobe Reader installed. I installed
> 'acroread' through the Ubuntu partner and it seemed to work.
>
> However, I love evince and want to use evince so I'm wondering how I
> can debug this situation.
>
> I have a feeling that the header sent is 'application/pdf' while
> '/usr/share/mime/application/pdf.xml' only reads:
>
> "<alias type="application/x-pdf"/>
> <alias type="image/pdf"/>"
>
> I tried adding '<alias type="application/pdf"/>' to the list, but
> don't know how to update the mime types database. I'll probably do a
> reboot and see if that helps.
>   
try run mime-update-database

-Ghee
> Let me know what else I can do to debug/test!
>
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