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Im having some problems with my document viewer (Im running Gnome on a rhel5 box). If I open a pdf file from the desktop by just double clicking it I only get the first page. My default viewer is Evince but I also have acroread available. If i select to open with acroread it opens the full pdf.
So its a bit of a two fold question:
Firstly, how do I fix the problem when clicking on the pdf file to open the whole document using evince?
Secondly, How do I change my default viewer to acroread? The previous point I'd like to solve if possible even though I dont really want to use Evince unless I have to.
Probably a piece of cake for many of you guys but I'm a bit of a beginner....
As to the second point: to change the default viewer
right-click on the file
go down to "open with .."
make sure that "always use this application" is checked
Concerning the first problem, I have never had this problem with evince (although I don't use Fedora or RedHat. I would file a bug on the redhat bugzilla.
Last edited by andrewthomas; 06-05-2011 at 12:37 AM.
Dont know how I never spotted that before. It was in properties when I right clicked.
Not sure about the Evince issue but another thing I noticed when logging in again is that Evince seems to be starting up automatically but with no document selected.
Any ideas on how I might stop this from starting automatically?
Ive tried running chkconfig --list but it does not appear in here so Im a bit stumped. Is there another file somewhere which states what should be started up automatically on log in?
Cheers
Last edited by hotspur919; 06-05-2011 at 07:24 AM.
Ok I checked my session preferences and evince isnt listed in there.
I checked /etc/xdg/autostart and this just seems to be files relating to the programs set to start in the gnome-sessions-properties window.
Trawled through my .gnome2 directory also with no joy.
Oh well Ive gone for the brute force option in the end......
I uninstalled evince. Job done.....haha
just my desktop when I log in Ah Bliss!!
I have three other document viewers available so its not a big deal.
Thank you for your help again. The tips will help me trouble shoot in the future although I'm aware I wont just be able to uninstall everything if it gives me a problem.
I'm not sure if it was the actual document causing the problem. As I said before it was working fine with acroread, KPDF etc. In fact if I opened the pdf (or any pdf in that directory) from the command line it read the whole document. I think the whole thing of evince starting uo on login had a part to play but I could be wrong.
This is the o/p from the pdfinfo for one of the docs:
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