Re: Choosing a .pdf viewer

"Donald Allen" <donaldcallen@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm running gnome 2.12.3 on an up-to-date gentoo system. I would like
to be able to choose the default pdf viewer used by Nautilus when I
double-click on a .pdf file (the current default, the Gnome PDF
Viewer, has serious rendering and performance problems with certain
.pdf files and also doesn't appear to offer the ability to search a
.pdf file). I have tried Settings-> File Types and Programs, which I
find completely unusable for this (and when you click Help-> Help with
File Types and Programs' settings, you either get a message saying the
help file doesn't exist, or Nautilus crashes). For example, in
attempting to substitute evince for the default .pdf viewer, I click
pdf document' in the main window. Then I click the 'Open with
Application' radio button and 'Edit list' in the default action
section and add evince to the list. Then I select it in the
pulldown. Then I click 'Ok'. Great. Except this has no effect on
Nautilus' choice of a .pdf viewer. And if I go back to File Types and
Programs and look at the entry for 'pdf document' in the main window,
the default action is 'none'. It would seem like a bug report or two
is in order here, which I will do. But meanwhile, any suggestions for
working around this?

Thanks -- /Don Allen


Your claim about the performance of evince is absolutely correct even
in gnome 2.14. I have to installed three pdf viewers: xpdf, acroread,
evince. Xpdf handles 90% of the files.

--
Leon

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