Hello, I have a strange problem. This is Fedora 8 system with KDE-3.5. For some reason, KDE stops recognizing PDF. The PDF icon does not show up for PDF file on Konqueror, trying to open PDF file will ask the program I want to open it with. Entering kpdf, kpdf will open and just say "One page document loaded", but shows nothing on the screen although I know for sure the document is multiple pages.
I tried launching KPdf, and try open PDF file. On the Filter, it just says "Unknown, Postscript", it seems that even KPDF does not recognize PDF. Same result as above when I try to actually open a known good PDF file (e.g. Evince will open it).
I tried uninstall and install kdegraphics and still does not fix the problem. I tried creating new clean user, removed ~/.kde, all to no avail. Very strange.
The last thing I did before this happen was that I remove AdobeReader_enu and nsplugginwrapper because I hate that PDF always try to open Acroread inside my Firefox. I wanted to just use KPDF as external app, and then this problem happened. I cannot even use KPDF stand alone.
Any help is greatly appreciated, as this is practically my workstation that I have to use.
Thanks. RDB
On Thursday 26 February 2009 23:09:21 RDB wrote:
Hello, I have a strange problem. This is Fedora 8 system with KDE-3.5. For some reason, KDE stops recognizing PDF. The PDF icon does not show up for PDF file on Konqueror, trying to open PDF file will ask the program I want to open it with. Entering kpdf, kpdf will open and just say "One page document loaded", but shows nothing on the screen although I know for sure the document is multiple pages.
I tried launching KPdf, and try open PDF file. On the Filter, it just says "Unknown, Postscript", it seems that even KPDF does not recognize PDF. Same result as above when I try to actually open a known good PDF file (e.g. Evince will open it).
I tried uninstall and install kdegraphics and still does not fix the problem. I tried creating new clean user, removed ~/.kde, all to no avail. Very strange.
The last thing I did before this happen was that I remove AdobeReader_enu and nsplugginwrapper because I hate that PDF always try to open Acroread inside my Firefox. I wanted to just use KPDF as external app, and then this problem happened. I cannot even use KPDF stand alone.
Another thing, when this happen, right clicking on PDF file with Konqueror, then on Property, it does't recognize it as PDF, only something about "octet/stream" for the MIME.
I tried "yum groupupdate KDE" and still did not help.
Out of desperation, I re-installed AdobeReader_enu via RPM. And suddenly KPDF works again, and KDE recognize PDF again. But still, What In The World Happened ?
RDB
RDB wrote:
Out of desperation, I re-installed AdobeReader_enu via RPM. And suddenly KPDF works again, and KDE recognize PDF again. But still, What In The World Happened ?
Adobe Reader mucks with the PDF mimetype settings and breaks things. Usually it happens when you install it (but uninstalling does not fix it), it's strange that for you it happens when uninstalling only.
In any case, Fedora 8 is no longer supported and it's time to upgrade. Incidentally that would also most likely "fix" your problem because KDE 4 uses different mimetype settings.
And hopefully this will teach you to leave your hands off broken proprietary software which breaks your system next time.
Kevin Kofler
On Friday 27 February 2009 01:16, Kevin Kofler wrote:
RDB wrote:
Out of desperation, I re-installed AdobeReader_enu via RPM. And suddenly KPDF works again, and KDE recognize PDF again. But still, What In The World Happened ?
Adobe Reader mucks with the PDF mimetype settings and breaks things. Usually it happens when you install it (but uninstalling does not fix it), it's strange that for you it happens when uninstalling only.
In any case, Fedora 8 is no longer supported and it's time to upgrade. Incidentally that would also most likely "fix" your problem because KDE 4 uses different mimetype settings.
And hopefully this will teach you to leave your hands off broken proprietary software which breaks your system next time.
Hello,
As I said, I don't want to use AdobeReader anymore. I had to use it at one time to fill out forms. I know that Okular can do that now, but not KPDF at the time. I very much dislike the fact that I have to use proprietary broken software as much as anyone, but sometime practicallity and time-pressure stumped idealism.
More practically, do you have any suggestion on how to fix the problem with KDE 3.5 after un-installing AdobeReader ? also out of curiousity, where is this MIME type settings ?
(I know F8 is no longer supported. My other system runs F10. This F8 is on a laptop that my wife uses all the time, and now is just not the right time to have a downtime due to upgrading to F10. )
Thanks. RDB --
Reuben Budiardja wrote:
More practically, do you have any suggestion on how to fix the problem with KDE 3.5 after un-installing AdobeReader ? also out of curiousity, where is this MIME type settings ?
The fix is to re-install kdelibs (to restore a working /usr/share/mimelnk/application/pdf.desktop )
-- Rex
On Friday 27 February 2009 12:28, Rex Dieter wrote:
Reuben Budiardja wrote:
More practically, do you have any suggestion on how to fix the problem with KDE 3.5 after un-installing AdobeReader ? also out of curiousity, where is this MIME type settings ?
The fix is to re-install kdelibs (to restore a working /usr/share/mimelnk/application/pdf.desktop )
Thank you. I'll give that a try later tonight.
RDB