KDE does not recognize PDF anymore

[Reuben Budiardja]

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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