[kde-freebsd] okular doesn't open PDFs

Raphael Kubo da Costa kubito at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 14:35:11 CET 2010


On Friday 05 March 2010 10:27:55 tom at diogunix.com wrote:
> Helly everybody,
> 
> using FreeBSD 7.2 with recently compiled KDE 4.3.5 (from the ports
> collection). I ran into various issues. One of these is:
> 
> Okular doesn't open pdf files. It says something about not found plugins
> (from which I guess it means poppler). I already checked whether poppler
> was compiled/installed too. Yes, it was - but nonetheless I cannot find
> any options within the Okular settings to make Okular use poppler. The
> only "backend" available there is ghostscript. I guess there must be a
> place where I could tie the two ends of the rope together. But cannot find
> that place.

The only backend listed in the Backends dialog is Ghostscript here too, even 
though poppler support works fine here.

Did you install poppler-qt4 (or whatever its name was in the ports tree) 
before compiling kdegraphics4? Is poppler correctly detected when CMake is 
called in kdegraphics4?


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