Re: [Evolution] Opening pdf attachments

[Carpet Nailz <carpetnailz researchintegration org>]

On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 16:19 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> On 12/15/2009 Carpet Nailz wrote:
> >  I see lots of posts about similar problems, but there doesn't seem to
> >  be
> >  a solution that I've found.
> >
> >  I'm running Evo 2.24.1.1, which is the latest version for openSuse
> >  11.1.
> >  When I get a pdf attachment, I often do not get the option to open the
> >  attachment with either Acrobat reader or Evince. One email that I
> >  received this morning only give me the options of gedit or
> >  OpenOffice.org Writer/Web...
> >
> >  Other times I get one or the other or both Acrobat or Evince. I
> >  actually
> >  received one email with two pdf attachments. One attachment gave me
> >  the
> >  options and the other did not (??).
> >
> >  I did not have this problem in the past with Evolution--seems to have
> >  started with my move to openSuse 11.1.
> >
> >  If I right-click on a pdf file in Nautilus it shows all the relevant
> >  options.
> >
> >  Thanks for any help.
>
> This is a MIME problem, not an evolution one.  It depends on how the 
> sending system encodes the PDF acrobat/PDF or application/PDF.  Make 
> sure both MIME types open in the reader you want.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've pursued it.

I don't think it's the solution, though. In the case of the email with
two pdfs attached, they both are type=application/pdf (according to the
properties of the files once I save them to the desktop), yet one (in
the email) give me as options to open Evince, Acrobat, OpenOffice
writer, & GIMP; while the other (same type) only gives OOwriter/web and
gedit. (On the desktop they both give me the same set of apps to open
with: Evince, Acrobat, OpenOffice Writer and GIMP.)

My mimeapps.list file had this line:
        "application/pdf=evince.desktop;writer.desktop;"

I added "acroread.desktop" to the end of that line and also added this
line: 
        "acrobat/pdf=acroread.desktop;evince.desktop;"

This has not made any difference in the behavior of the sample email
I've been working with.

I just copied the two documents to a flash drive from my desktop, moved
it to my Vista box and mailed them back to myself (with Notes mail).
This time in Evolution both gave me only OpenOfficeWriter/web and gedit
options even though, again, both behaved fine when saved to the desktop.
So the computer knows how to open them. It's just Evolution that
doesn't.

Thanks.