Re: [evince] ev_document_factory_get_document not loading pdf file

[Hib Eris <hib hiberis nl>]

Hi Richard,

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Richard Shann <richard shann virgin net> wrote:
> Running GNU/Denemo on Mac OSX we use ev_document_factory_get_document()
> to load a pdf file. On this platform (only) the call fails with the
> message
>
> File type application/octet-stream type (application/octet-stream) is
> not supported
>
> Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? The call is working fine on
> GNU/Linux and on Windows.

Previously, I've run into the same problem when porting Evince to
Windows. It has something to do with Evince' mime-type
detection/handling. I think there were several issues with it.

First step to fixing this is to see what this evince function returns:

mime_type = ev_file_get_mime_type (uri, TRUE, error);

If that returns 'application/octet-stream', I guess you need to
register the pdf mime type somewhere in your OS specific mime type
store.

If the mime type is something like 'application/pdf', then make sure
the returned mimetype is specified in the file
/usr/lib/evince/4/backends/pdfdocument.evince-backend.

Regards,

Hib Eris











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