shochatd
April 29th, 2013, 10:11 PM
This is 13.04 with the standard (Unity) desktop.
I have Adobe Reader 9 installed and can use it from the command line as acroread. But I'd like to be able to select it via "open with" in Nautilus from the context menu for a PDF. I have the impression that this requires a desktop file. I found AdobeReader.desktop in /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Support and tried putting a symlink in /usr/local/share/applications to this file. Contents of AdobeReader.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Adobe Reader 9
MimeType=application/pdf;application/vnd.fdf;application/vnd.adobe.pdx;application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml;application/vnd.adobe.xfdf;
Exec=acroread
Type=Application
GenericName=PDF Viewer
Terminal=false
Icon=AdobeReader9
Caption=PDF Viewer
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
Categories=Application;Office;Viewer;X-Red-Hat-Base;
InitialPreference=9
But that doesn't seem to work. I still don't see it under "open with" even if I do "Show other applications". What do I need to do? I'm not trying to set it to be the default application for PDFs (I want to keep evince as the default).
-- David
I have Adobe Reader 9 installed and can use it from the command line as acroread. But I'd like to be able to select it via "open with" in Nautilus from the context menu for a PDF. I have the impression that this requires a desktop file. I found AdobeReader.desktop in /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Support and tried putting a symlink in /usr/local/share/applications to this file. Contents of AdobeReader.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Adobe Reader 9
MimeType=application/pdf;application/vnd.fdf;application/vnd.adobe.pdx;application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml;application/vnd.adobe.xfdf;
Exec=acroread
Type=Application
GenericName=PDF Viewer
Terminal=false
Icon=AdobeReader9
Caption=PDF Viewer
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
Categories=Application;Office;Viewer;X-Red-Hat-Base;
InitialPreference=9
But that doesn't seem to work. I still don't see it under "open with" even if I do "Show other applications". What do I need to do? I'm not trying to set it to be the default application for PDFs (I want to keep evince as the default).
-- David