enable PDF and other file previews in KDE / Dolphin

[jose]

Hi everybody,
I have a problem with pdf preview in dolphin, I have installed the packages needed in order to have the pdf preview option in dolphin, but when I click this option, nothing happens it does not work.

[doktor5000]

Which packages did you install, and how big are the PDF files for which the preview does not show?
Normally this does not need any additional packages, but you need to enable previews explicitly for PDF files in dolphin,
and also maybe adjust the settings for previews in general, regarding the filesizes.

In dolphin, check Settings -> Configure Dolphin -> General -> Previews -> enable previews for "PostScript-, PDF- and DVI-files" and check file-sizes
below there for Local files, Then it should work when you put dolphin in preview mode, and you should get bigger previews on mouseover.

[macxi]

Hi everybody,
I have a problem with pdf preview in dolphin, I have installed the packages needed in order to have the pdf preview option in dolphin, but when I click this option, nothing happens it does not work.

Jose,
Welcome to the Mageia Forum!

In dolphin, check Settings -> Configure Dolphin -> General -> Previews -> enable previews for "PostScript-, PDF- and DVI-files" and check file-sizes

Doktor5000,
I did not know this configuration option.
Now I also set up a preview of various file formats in Dolphin.
Thanks for the tip

Note: I organized these tips in the Forum MageiaBrasil

[jose]

I have done that but it doesn´t work.
When I go to configure --> general ---> previews ---->
It appears Pdf and DVI files option but it doesn´t work if I click on

[macxi]

I have done that but it doesn´t work.
When I go to configure --> general ---> previews ---->
It appears Pdf and DVI files option but it doesn´t work if I click on

Jose,

Are you using the "Mageia 1" or "Mageia 2"? If you are using Mageia 2, with KDE, when you open the Dolphin, you need to select, on the toolbar: "icons" and "preview". Are you doing it and still does not appear? What image format? Is the picture too big?

[jose]

I use mageia 2, I installed with live cd.
I have selected preview but it doesn´t work at all

thanks for your quick response

[macxi]

I use mageia 2, I installed with live cd.
I have selected preview but it doesn´t work at all
thanks for your quick response

Can you open these same images with other software like Gwenview, KolourPaint, or Gimp? Has your user permission to open these files? If these files are owned by another user, as root, you can not preview these images. You need to change the permissions before.

[doktor5000]

@Jose: "It doesn't work" is not an exact problem description

Please provide more details, which we already asked for, like for what filetypes, and what size are those files,
and which file sizes did you set in the preview settings?

[jose]

I have solved the problem,the problem was that I had not installed ghostscript packages.
Installing ghostscript I have pdf preview in dolphin.

[isadora]

Great jose you got this solved.
A good tradition is, now to mark the topic solved.
You can do so, by editing the subject in the first message of this topic.
Pre-fix the subject with [SOLVED], and you're done.

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