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- | This page describes how to deal with files opening in the wrong applications, | + | ====== File Handling Issues ====== |
- | === Why do I see gibberish (" | + | ==== Unexpected behavior (wrong action, |
- | Deleting mimeTypes.rdf from the [[http:// | + | Deleting mimeTypes.rdf from your [[profile directory]] |
- | Zotero itself doesn' | + | ==== PDFs opening |
+ | While Zotero be configured to use the system-default PDF reader, file handling on Linux can be affected by many settings. If you find that PDFs open in, say, Gimp even though you've set the file handler to be Okular in Dolphin/ | ||
- | == PDF's open in wrong application on GNU/Linux systems == | + | If you'd like to keep the setting as " |
- | If you find that PDF's open in eg. Gimp even though | + | |
+ | Open the file | ||
< | < | ||
~/ | ~/ | ||
</ | </ | ||
- | in your favorite plain text editor and look for the line " | + | in a text editor and look for the line " |
< | < | ||
- | application/ | + | application/ |
</ | </ | ||
- | If the file does not exist, | + | If the file does not exist, create it and enter the following content: |
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[Default Applications] | [Default Applications] | ||
+ | application/ | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Note: On some systems, you might need to use | ||
+ | < | ||
application/ | application/ | ||
</ | </ | ||
+ | instead. | ||
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+ | For other PDF readers you might use one of the following: | ||
- | If you want Evince or Adobe Acrobat instead of Okular, use | ||
< | < | ||
application/ | application/ | ||
</ | </ | ||
- | or | ||
< | < | ||
application/ | application/ | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | application/ | ||
</ | </ | ||
- | {{tag> | + | {{tag> |