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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,
it is indeed checked and it appears to be a 2 year old bug.....

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.wxwidgets.devel/162783

Any idea of how to properly fix this problem?

cheers
Fabrizio



On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 6/6/2017 4:17 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> > ​Apologies for presenting this problem again and again
> >
> >  I think this topic came up too many times but (on my linux system) the
> > default PDF viewer is not pulled correctly by kiCad. From the terminal:
> >
> > $ cat /usr/share/applications/defaults.list  | grep pdf
> > application/pdf=xreader.desktop;evince.desktop;atril.desktop
>
> Is this the same as the mime type?  Look at another app such as
> Thunderbird and see what app it uses to open PDF files.
>
> >
> > but KiCad insist using Gimp.
>
> Is Preferences->PDF Viewer->System Default PDF Viewer in the KiCad
> launcher checked?  If not, KiCad will attempt to fall back on some
> reasonable default.  If it is checked, then there is most likely a bug
> in wxMimeTypeManager which is used to determine the system command to
> open a PDF file.
>
> >
> > can anybody point me to the right direction? I am looking at
> preferences.cpp
>
> The source file you are looking for is common/gestfich.cpp.  The
> function is OpenPDF().
>
> >
> > Cheers
> > Fabrizio​
> >
> >
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