PDF problem

[ray house]

Very good Brent, thank you very much for your time and good ideas. I will try to set up Tbird. Again thank you, have a nice evening. Ray

Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:16:52 -0600
From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: PDF problem






  


Sorry Ray, fresh out of ideas as to whats next. 

Except of course to get you off of webmail and into a real email client
like TBird.



Brent 



ray house wrote:

  Brent, I do all that but it always returns to File system.
There is no Apply so I close preferences and when I return, it is still
in File system. Ray

  

  Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:54:08 -0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Subject: Re: PDF problem

  

Generally,

  

Hotmail is not an email client for you in particular but for the entire
membership of Hotmail.com. As such there are, most likely, restrictions
placed on how attachments are handled. In the Microsoft world email
attachments are a huge security risk. Perhaps hotmail has enabled some
global restrictions tht only allow for a download of these attachments
so that the integrity of hotmail is not compromised.

  

An email client for you would be Thunderbird or Eudora, both of which
are available through the Synaptic Package Manager.  You  can configure
either to pick up your Hotmail messages and get direct management of
attachments. 

  

BTW, changing the download location is as easy as clicking on the words
'file system' as they appear in the edit/pref/general tab. This should
open a menu and let you choose from what is available. In my case the
choices are ...  file system; desktop; and then a list of the multiple
partitions as mounted by the OS. Just click on desktop and apply the
change by either clicking on 'apply' if shown or by closing the
preferences window. 

B

  

ray house wrote:
  
    Alright in Edit, preferences, the downloads are in " File
System" and I cant seem to change that to Desktop, no matter, I have
found them in tmp. At least I now where they are.There they are already
opened. Still why are they not opened from the email program? Thanks a
lot for the help Brent.  Ray

    

    Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:52:17 -0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Subject: Re: PDF problem

    

In Epiphany it is under Edit/Preferences under the General tab. After
downloading and installing it I see the default download location is to
the Desktop. Any PDF you have downloaded is now on your desktop. Right
click on the file and choose Properties. Find the Open tab and then
specify the program you want to use to open PDF files with. That should
do it.

Brent 

    

ray house wrote:
    
      Ok Brent, when I go: tools in epiphany all I get is
Extensions, java console, python console no downloads. Ray

      

      Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:24:13 -0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Subject: Re: PDF problem

      

OK, that and your other explanation helps a bit.

      

You are using a web based or "webmail" application so of course you get
and read your mail through a browser.  I don't use these so I cannot
help with it use. 

      

However after you have downloaded the PDF, can you find it? If not open
the download window from within Epiphany (tools/download) and check to
see where it is being saved.  Once you locate it, right click on it to
choose Properties. Then choose the Open with tab to select which
program you would like to associate with PDF files. From then on in the
OS will open PDFs with that program.

      

Brent 

      

ray house wrote:
      
        Hotmail.  Ray

        

        Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:56:46
-0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Subject: Re: PDF problem

        

Which Email program are you using?

        

B

        

ray house wrote:
        
           Yes in the email program, I open the email with the
attachement. I click on the attachement and I get a download window I
wait till the download is complete and then no matter what I click,
nothing happens! Ray

          

          Date: Thu, 28 May 2009
11:23:31
-0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Subject: Re: PDF problem

          

While in the email program?

          

 Epiphany is a browser so clicking on a PDF will save the file, hence
the download window, unless you associate another action with that file
type. Once a file is downloaded right click to get the menu. Choose
Properties and then go to the Open tab to select Open Office, Evince or
Acrobat to associate with this type of file. Once the OS know how to
deal with that file it should open them directly without the download.

          

You wrote originally..." i am
using
Ubuntu
9.04 with Epiphany and cant read PDF from emails" and, as I understand
it,  this is confusing as emails do not have anything to do with your
browser.

          

Brent 

          

ray house wrote:
          
            Nothing happens when I right click! or double
click.
Ray

            

            Date: Thu, 28 May 2009
10:51:14
-0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Subject: Re: PDF problem

            

Right click, Ray....should open small menu with open as a choice.

B

            

ray house wrote:
            
              When I click on the attachement I get the
download
window
and
I see that the download is complete(100%). What Open?  Ray

              

              Date: Thu, 28 May
2009
09:56:28
-0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Subject: Re: PDF problem

              

              
What happens when you right click on the attachment in the email
program? What happens when you choose Open?

Brent 

              

ray house wrote:
              
                Hi
Brent,
I
have
Open
Office too but my download window wont respond to any click.

Ray

                

                

                Date: Thu,
28 May
2009
09:05:55
-0600

From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca

To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Subject: Re: PDF problem

                

ray house wrote:
                
                  Hi, i
am
using
Ubuntu
9.04 with Epiphany and cant read PDF from emails. With synaptic I
downloaded Acrobat 9.0 but when I open Acrobat it says to go to Edit,
preferences, internet and at bottom of window I get: please specify the
directory containing the HTML rendering library( libgtkembedoz.so or
libxul.so) this library is required for rendering HTML content in Adobe
Reader:

At this point using synaptic I seem to go nowhere, in other words I am
lost! Any help please,  Ray

                  

                  One at a time or all at once? Get updates from
your
friends
in one
place.
                I use Open Office and all email
attached
PDFs
work
just
fine and open automatically with a double click.

Brent 

                

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