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Bug 543592

Summary: app-text/acroread-9.5.5 context menu 'open with Acrobat Reader 9' from filemanager doesn't work
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Dmitry A. Bakshaev <dab1818>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Printing Team <printing>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: replace %U URL-placeholder with %F
replace %U URL-placeholder with %F

Description Dmitry A. Bakshaev 2015-03-17 10:44:12 UTC
/usr/share/applications/AdobeReader.desktop:
..
Exec=acroread %U
..

%U - placeholder for substituting URL, but acroread not accept URL from command line.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. right-click on pdf-file from filemanager (pcmanfm)
2. click 'open with acrobat reader 9'
3. acrobat reader window appears

Actual Results:  
no pdf-file loaded

Expected Results:  
opened pdf-file

simple test:
$file -i /home/dab/test.pdf
/home/dab/test.pdf: application/pdf; charset=binary
$acroread /home/dab/test.pdf <-- file opened
$acroread file:///home/dab/test.pdf <-- empty acroread window

similar discussion:
https://answers.launchpad.net/do/+question/56004
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acroread/?comments=all
Comment 1 Dmitry A. Bakshaev 2015-03-17 10:46:26 UTC
Created attachment 399096 [details, diff]
replace %U URL-placeholder with %F

also fix QA notice https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476096
Comment 2 Dmitry A. Bakshaev 2015-03-18 07:16:42 UTC
Created attachment 399180 [details, diff]
replace %U URL-placeholder with %F

+ fix another QA notice
Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2015-05-09 12:32:25 UTC
+*acroread-9.5.5-r3 (09 May 2015)
+
+  09 May 2015; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> +acroread-9.5.5-r3.ebuild,
+  -acroread-9.5.5.ebuild:
+  Don't create bogus file (#412051), fix .desktop file (#476096 and #543592)
+