Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 147082
Evince does not recognize and open compressed PS-files
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:59 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050109 Epiphany/1.5.5 Description of problem: Evince is unable to uncompress and open *ps.gz and *ps.bz2 files. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evince-0.1.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a compressed PS-file by means of "evince". Actual Results: Evince issues "Unhandled MIME type: 'application/x-gzpostscript'" and "Unhandled MIME type: 'application/x-bzip'" respectively. Expected Results: Evince should have called the appropriate helper application and displayed the uncompressed PS-file. Additional info: The correct behaviour is common standard for "ggv".
Implemented for gz. For bz I think it would require a mime type to be added to the freedesktop spec. Are bzipped ps common at all or is it a ggv only feature?
As "bzip2" is going to succeed "gzip" in the middle/long term, the corresponding options is certainly useful. Since "ggv" is offering this possibility, I do keep all of my PS files compressed with "bzip2" which results in extremely reduced file sizes. Moreover, it's really only a minor tweak to call "bzip2" instead of "gzip" as soon as the associated suffix is detected. So, if "gzip" decompression is already implemented, no reason not to do so for "bzip2".
>as soon as the associated suffix is detected Mime detection in evince is done through the freedesktop spec. I dont think I feel to argue to add x-bzpostscript there. Feel free to do it though and reopen this bug. You can post a request to: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ shared-mime-info module