[Users] nbox Message ordering, preview pane and attachment viewing

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Fri Dec 30 00:41:11 CET 2016


On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:27:43 +1100
Liz <edodd55 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:43:08 +1300
> kangaroo <kieakl at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > When composing a message, I add a pdf attachment and then want to
> > view that attachment before sending the mail. How can I view the
> > attachment? I can only view the attachment after the mail is sent,
> > not during the composition stage.  
> 
> I haven't found a simple way
> You can check the attachment by choosing the "Attachments" tab, right
> clicking on the properties and then copying the "path" for the
> attachment. 
> In Linux I feed that into something that will choose a pdf
> reader for me (I could use CLI and go xpdf "path_to_the_pdf").
> Windows - I don't know how you do that.

There is a plugin, PDF Viewer, available on Linux. Perhaps there is a
Windows equivalent?

    This plugin enables the viewing of PDF and PostScript attachments
    using the Poppler 0.26.5 Lib and the gs tool.

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