Getting Evince to Work in Firefox in Gutsy

sdexp · 10-21-2007, 10:32 PM

If you upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon then you probably had problems getting evince to show PDF documents still.

Make sure you do this

Code:

apt-get remove mozpluggerrc
apt-get install mozpluggerrc

So here's what you should do to /etc/mozpluggerrc

Code:

...

application/pdf:pdf:PDF file
        repeat swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
application/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
        repeat swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
text/pdf:pdf:PDF file
        repeat swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
text/x-pdf:pdf:PDF file
        repeat swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"
        repeat swallow(documentShell) fill: acroread5 -geometry +9000$
        repeat swallow(acroread) fill: acroread7 -openInNewWindow "$f$
        repeat noisy swallow(kpdf) fill: kpdf "$file"
        repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file"
        GV()

...

application/x-postscript:ps:PostScript file
application/postscript:ps:PostScript file
        GV()
        repeat swallow(evince) fill: evince "$file"



...

The ... (ellipsis) means there's more there but don't change it.

sdexp · 10-29-2007, 12:34 PM

I guess this is currently a bug in evince, since my suggestion too does not always work.

In the meantime I suggest that kghostview be used by replacing the above lines containing evince with

repeat noisy swallow(kghostview) fill: kghostview "$file"

This works pretty well.