Can one make Eye of Gnome detect file type rather than use suffix?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:06:20PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 23:13, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> >  (I just got some images mailed to me which had suffix JPG but
> > were actually PNG files).
> 
> I don't often promote Windows stuff but I must admit I've never found
> a Linux image viewer I like nearly as much as IrfanView yet.
> 
> Anyway. That's an error. IMHO a *good* viewer should offer to fix
> those files for you by renaming them.
> 
> > File viewers like ristretto ignore the suffix and can view the files
> > OK but Eye of Gnome outputs an error.  I want to use Eye of Gnome for
> > its printing ability.
> 
> Of course, failing that, you could just do it yourself. Then you could
> print them from EoG.
> 
Yes, of course I can save the file, then rename it, then print it, but
that's rather a lot of hassle when all I wanted to do was print an
image someone had E-Mailed to me.

-- 
Chris Green