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
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