Maybe it’s me (Lubuntu 12.10 32 bit using scrivener 1.2.5), but I can’t open PDFs. PDFs constitute the bulk of my reference documents. Is it my setup? Can anyone open PDFs? Has anyone found a work around? Considering all the open source pdf reading code out there, I can’t believe this is a problem.
PDF isn’t supported in the Linux Beta, and hasn’t for a long time, back past at least 2010, at least according to my search in this forum. To answer your question, alas, no, it isn’t your setup.
Perhaps someone who’s privy to the development schedule could chime in?
Anyone get PDF import working in Wine? That would be a nice workaround.
I’ve just started the 1.2.5 beta and was about to report the same problem when I found this thread. I’m using the beta on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit and after applying the workaround mentioned here: [url]https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/1-2-5-problem-with-rtf-reader/19004/1] things are looking fine except PDF display.
Just found the option to open the pdf document in an external viewer. For any other newbies: You can do that with the icon on the bottom right-hand corner of the editor view. At least for me that is a workaround for now. The Linux version is much nicer looking and feels snapier than the Windows version I was trying under Wine, so I’d prefer to stay on native Linux if possible.
PDF viewing used to work fine with WINE, but when they switched to using QuickPDF, it broke it. I’ve tried putting a native fontsub.dll into .wine/drive_c/windows/system32, but it makes Scrivener crash. Installing QuickPDF doesn’t fix it, either.
Wow, brilliant! And all this time, I never noticed that. So, that means I can store PDF files in a project, and open them with (in my case) the Gnome PDF viewer. I could, I suppose, set up the Adobe Reader to be the default, if I wanted to…
Thanks gadgeteer!
It’ll grab whatever is the system default, AFAIK.