evince is called "Document Viewer" in Ubuntu. You're already using it. Right-click on one of your PDF documents and select "Properties" (the last option on the menu) Then select the "Open With" tab. Click the radio button circle next to Document Viewer. (If Document viewer is not on the list, click Add and add it from the list of available applications) then click the "Close" button.
From then on you should be able to read ANY PDF simply by double-clicking it's icon.
On 7 February 2010 20:06, Robert D Davidson <robert(a)datamatrix.co.nz> wrote:
Hi Bruce,
O.K. I am a real masochist for these sorts of jobs. Please tell me how I load evince including all Bash Shell commands (Synaptic sucks)
Cheers
Robert
On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 19:56 +1300, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
I really, STRONGLY advise against using Adobe's proprietary bloatware. Adobe's reader is 43M, evince (including libraries) is less than half a meg. And evince has a lot more useful functionality (not just less anti-features)
On 7 February 2010 17:01, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your help I have got it sorted. I can open them with Document Viewer by right clicking in the search files utility. now. The Adobe download didn't install, error "not i386 archetiture" so I am giving it up for lost for now.
You could always "force" the architecture (in other words: the installer won't complain that you're running 64bit), as the first comment on the following blog entry states:
http://easierbuntu.blogspot.com/2008/02/installing-adobe-reader.html
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