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Re: [Orgmode] OT?: viewing pdf as attachment
From: |
Sebastian Rose |
Subject: |
Re: [Orgmode] OT?: viewing pdf as attachment |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:31:09 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Hi John,
there have been several threads to this concern. Maybe searching them
helps a little (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/). This
here seemed to help in a similar case (~/.mailcap):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2007-09/msg00534.html
Regards,
Sebastian
John Rakestraw <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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.
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