Nautilus: Unable to open documents with Acroread

guarriman · 12-09-2004, 04:08 AM

Hi.

Working with Fedora Core 2, I'm trying to link (when browsing my directories with
Nautilus) my PDF documents with Acrobat Reader (located at
'/usr/local/bin/acrobat5/bin/acroread').

I perform:
Right button > Open with... > Other application

On this screen:
File Type and Programs > Go There

On this screen:
MIME Type: application/pdf
Program to run: /usr/local/bin/acrobat5/bin/acroread
OK

But when I try to open a PDF document with Acroread, I'm unable to select
this app, because it doesn't appear!!

Any suggestion?

perfect_circle · 12-09-2004, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Right button > Open with... > Other application

On this screen:
File Type and Programs > Go There

On this screen:
MIME Type: application/pdf
Program to run: /usr/local/bin/acrobat5/bin/acroread
OK

But when I try to open a PDF document with Acroread, I'm unable to select
this app, because it doesn't appear!!

then
Right button > Open with... > Other application
You should see acroread on the table.
Then click it, and press modify button
Select: "include on the menu"
or "use as default"

guarriman · 12-10-2004, 03:03 AM

The solution was making a soft link from 'acroread' to '/usr/local/bin/acroread' (within $PATH).