[Bio-Linux] Acrobat Reader and Nautilus

[Dan Swan]

Hi All,

This tip comes from Rob Anderson at Imperial College.   There are issues 
using Adobe Acrobat Reader under Bio-Linux (this is installed as:

/usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread

Nautilus, the Bio-Linux file browser does not automagically launch this 
application if you double click a pdf.  Here is Rob's solution:

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You obviously spotted that the LANG environment variable needed to be 
set in order to make Acrobat reader work, but she still couldn’t get it 
to launch from Nautilus.

I’ve fixed it.  Here’s what I did (from the console):

1) Made a script called acroread in her bin directory, containing

#!/bin/zsh
export LANG=C
/usr/local/acrobat/bin/acroread $1

2)Made it executable

3)Opened a PDF file with a command such as ~/bin/acroread my_pdf_file.pdf

Now Nautilus has Acrobat Reader on the list of applications when you 
right-click the file and do Open With…, and it is the default, and it 
works when you double-click it.

The link refers to the acroread in ~/bin because if you rename the 
script, the menu item disappears.

Obviously if you want to put a similar change in for all users, you’d 
want to relocate the script.  You might also want to adjust to use $* 
instead of $1, so that more than one parameter is passed.

(I just bashed something together quickly for testing.)

Rob.
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Cheers Rob, we'll have a fix in the image today.

regards,

Dan

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