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  • From: Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Viewing PDF problem
  • Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 06:37:42 -0700

what viewer are you using to view pdfs? you can install lsof and grep
for your viewer to see what sorts of stuff it wants to open and maybe
one of those things can only be opened by root (printer port maybe). have
you tried xpdf or gv?

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:51:20PM +0200, Piero Ottuzzi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can see PDF files only as root.
> If I try to open them as a normal user, the viewer starts but it doesn't
> display the PDF content.
> I don't get any error.
>
> I have KDE3 and nothing else to read PDF.
> Any hint???
>
> Many thanks
> Apiero




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