PDF problem

Thu May 28 21:12:51 UTC 2009

Ray, I admire your industriousness.

Your email program, epiphany, doesn't know what to do with the PDF
document, that's why it's opted to download it. It will continue to
download everything it doesn't understand.

I also use epiphany to get to my Hotmail account, though it's not my
primary account. I tested it today to see what it would do. When I
open the message with an attachment, I get a message at the top that
reads: "Attachments, pictures, and links in this message have been
blocked for your safety. "Show Content""

After I click on the "Show Content" link I can then open the PDF link
and I get a dialog box with three options. "Save As...", "Cancel" or
"Open."

In my case, it opens using Adobe Reader 9. This version of reader was
installed using Synaptic.

You could try still installing the Adobe Reader plugin. I think it's
worth it. To do that, click on System --> Administration --> Synaptic
Package Manager.

You might be asked to type in your password at this point.

Then click on the Search button on the menu bar.

Type in the word "acroread."

It will find the right version of Adobe Reader (known as acroread) and
you can install it. To verify that the epiphany plugin was installed,
run epiphany and then in the address bar, type in the following:

about:plugins

You should see a list of all plugins installed and Adobe Reader.

Best of luck in your Linux adventures.

Andrew.

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:15 PM, ray house <v.2.ol at hotmail.com> 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
>
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> I use Open Office and all email attached PDFs work just fine and open
> automatically with a double click.
> Brent
>
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