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

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 11 July 2019 09:34:59 Liam Proven wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 13:30, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > Er, this is sort of where we came in! :-)
>
> Well, sort of. Getting files by email, extracting them & then printing
> them is one thing; printing directly from a mail is another.
>
> Once they're extracted, it's trivial to fix them. As attachments, it's
> not. You could probably ID the files in /tmp and fix them there but
> then that's no longer direct.
>
> I've looked at it. This bug has been in EoG since 2007.
>
> 9Y ago:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/632362
>
> 12Y ago:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/172416
>
> I don't think it's ever going to get fixed.
>
> This is why:
> https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
>
> Summary: I don't think you can. Find some other viewer which gives you
> the printing control or functionality you need. That's about your only
> option. :-(
>
As you know, I'm running TDE which is a fork of kde-3.5 with 99% of the 
3.5 bugs fixed. I can print directly from the viewer that pops up when I 
click on the pix attachment. The only thing of note is that I must 
enable, in the printer dialog it pops up when you click on the printer 
icon, is to make sure the checkbox for "fit to page" is enabled, 
otherwise I get a very small part of the picture expanded to full page.

Thats about as close to Just works as it gets. :)
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