[Techtalk] pdfs and mutt
Conor Daly
conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Wed Mar 19 00:16:35 EST 2003
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:04:54PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Emma Jane Hogbin thought:
> I'd like to be able to open PDFs from mutt. Right now when I try to "v"iew
> a PDF it shows me a stream of text in the mutt window. (Would it make a
> difference if the PDF was sent from a Mac vs. a PC?)
>
> I've added:
> .mime.types add the line:
>
> application/pdf pdf
>
> In .mailcap add the lines:
>
> # Use xpdf to view PDF files.
> application/pdf; xpdf -err %s
My /etc/mailcap has the following line for pdf:
application/pdf; xpdf %s
note the absence of the "-err" switch. What's that for anyhow?
Found this on mutt-users from some time back:
"mutt will not use the "application/pdf" entry in your
mailcap unless the content-type of the attachment is application/pdf.
Simply having a file name suffix/extension of .pdf is not sufficient.
If the content-type is application/octet-stream, for example, you may
need to use an external program like mutt.octet.filter."
However, since most of the "application/octet-stream" attachments _I_
receive are gzipped logfiles, I've just set an entry to use zcat on them
in my .mailcap Something like (it's at work):
application/octet-stream; zcat %s; copiousoutput
If most of your PDFs come as "application/octet-stream" and you're
prepared to save and view externally the few _non pdf_
application/octet-stream attachments, you could get away with:
application/octet-stream; xpdf %s
Of course, you _could_ go to the trouble of getting and installing
mutt.octet.filter instead...
Conor
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