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Re: [Orgmode] OT?: viewing pdf as attachment


From: John Rakestraw
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] OT?: viewing pdf as attachment
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:56:09 -0500

> Hi --
> 
> I think this is not specifically an org-mode issue, but it shows up in
> org.
> 
> I've started using the file attachment feature. I really like the way
> it works, except that it doesn't work consistently with pdf files on
> one of my computers. I can attach a pdf easily, but when I try to open
> the attachment from org-mode, acroread opens as expected but it
> doesn't open the file -- instead, I have an empty acroread window
> (the same window I get if I open acroread from the command line with
> no file specified). The program is run, but somehow the file name
> isn't passed to the program.
> 
> I'm puzzled because it works as expected on my other primary computer,
> and both computers have basically the emacs and org-mode same set-up
> -- i.e., .emacs and the org-configuration files are identical. (I know
> they're identical because they're synched between computers.) So
> there's some other setting that's off. I'm hoping that someone can
> give me a hint where to look. I've come up empty in my searches.
> 
> Set-up on both computers:
>  - emacs 22.2.1
>  - org 6.12trans
>  - Fedora 8
>  - fvwm window manager

Apologies for replying to my own message, but I forgot to say that when
I run "acroread some_file.pdf" from a terminal, acroread opens the file
as expected.

-- 
John Rakestraw




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