Re: [Sheflug] MIME types for pdf

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Cheers, Craig...

 messed about for ages with this one. %f, %u or %l is the usual for
files, URLs and locations - I didn't plan on working through the whole
alphabet!

Baz.

Craig Andrews wrote:
> 
> This is mine:
> 
> Description: Portable Document Format
> MIME Type: application/pdf
> Suffixes: pdf
> 
> Handled by PLUGIN: nppdf.so
> 
> If you don't have this plugin, use application, with the following:
> 
> acroread %s
> 
> I don't know why they chose %s to mean 'filename' :)
> 
> Craig Andrews
> craig [at] fishbot.org.uk
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Life would be so much easier if we
> could just look at the source code.
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
> >
> >  Can anyone tell me how to get either xpdf or, preferably, Acroread
> > (adobe) to open pdf files, instead of having to download them and open
> > them by hand?
> >
> >  I can't figure the entry into netscape's MIME listing..
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> >  Baz.


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