If you are running Ubuntu or Debian and cannot open the PDF file simply by clicking on it, it is exceptionally likely that it is simply NOT a PDF file. You have most likely downloaded an interstitial page or 404 error instead of the PDF file you wanted. The first workshop we ever ran, I had a user turn up who had spend the last few days (it may have been weeks) trying to compile a PDF reader from source in Ubuntu. It turned out that the PDF file he had downloaded was corrupt and when we downloaded it again correctly it opened immediately in evince. another possibility is that pdf's have somehow become unassociated with evince. Right click on your 'pdf' file and select properties, make sure it is actually a pdf file, go to 'open with' and make sure that it's trying to open it with evince. On 6 February 2010 22:11, Robert D Davidson <robert(a)datamatrix.co.nz> wrote:
I downloaded the file from Adobe and got a binary on my desktop but now I can't get any application to do anything with it and it won't run.
Cheers
Robert
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chakat Sandwalker" <sandwalker(a)gmail.com> To: "Waikato Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [wlug] Senior Moment regarding PDF files
I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader using the installer from Adobe. It worked perfectly fine, and I think it also allowed viewing PDFs within Firefox.
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