Evince image viewer cannot view PNG

[Phill Whiteside]

Ahh,

yes, didn't notice that it is called simply "Image Viewer" in the menu.
That I never call it that way is my only pathetic defence :) I just double
click the file via pcmanfm and it launches :D

Regards,

Phill.


On 20 September 2013 17:26, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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