Evince image viewer cannot view PNG

[Lars Noodén]

Ok.  Thanks.  I was trying to view documents in the PNG format. ;)

I've now found gpicview in accessories, though not by name.

Regards,
/Lars

On 09/20/2013 07:20 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> according to the wiki entry [1]  *Evince* is a document
> viewer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_viewer>
>  for PDF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format>,
> PostScript<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript>
> , DjVu <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu>,
> TIFF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format>
> , XPS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_XML_Paper_Specification> and
> DVI<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_independent_file_format>
> 
> GpicView is the default image viewer in lubuntu and it opens .png's quite
> happily.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince
> 
> 
> On 20 September 2013 17:08, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> When trying to view a PNG file, Evince chokes:
>>
>>         Unable to open document "file:///home/lars/Pictures/
>>         2013-09-20-181032_1680x1050_scrot.png"
>>
>>         File type PNG image (image/png) is not supported
>>
>> Has this bug already been reported?  The image view should support PNG,
>> since it is a common, open format.   It is also the format used by the
>> built-in screen capture programl, scrot.
>>
>> Also, is this version of Evince specific to Lubuntu?
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Lars
>>
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