Re: [evince] ev_document_factory_get_document not loading pdf file

[Richard Shann <richard shann virgin net>]

Thank you very much for this - we will try what you suggest (a rather
circuitous process unfortunately as I don't have access to a Mac)
Richard
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 07:57 +0100, Hib Eris wrote:
> Hi Richard,
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> 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
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> > 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:
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> mime_type = ev_file_get_mime_type (uri, TRUE, error);
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> 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,
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> Hib Eris
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