Evince image viewer cannot view PNG

[Lars Noodén]

That's something that could be polished a little.  There are some
applications that are labeled in the menu by what they do, others by the
name of the application.  It would be more consistent to go completely
one way or the other.

Regards,
/Lars

On 09/20/2013 07:37 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> 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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