Public bug reported: (I don't know which component of Gnome is responsible for this problem). This is in Intrepid
My bank provides tax information via an FDF file. Internally it points to a PDF with named fields and supplies values for the fields. It has a text header identifying it as FDF. The file command gets things right: $ file tax.fdf tax.fdf: FDF document, version 1.2 Gnome however claims it is a "MATLAB script/function", as shown in Nautilus. What I would expect is for it to be recognised as an FDF just like file does, and hopefully to be associated with something useful. The file starts like this with the <E2><E3><CF><D3> being bytes of those hex values. ==== 8< ==== %FDF-1.2 %<E2><E3><CF><D3> 1 0 obj << /FDF << /Fields 2 0 R /F (https://personal.vanguard.com/taxForms/pdfs/TXFRM_1099DIV_1page.pdf)>> >> endobj 2 0 obj [ << /T (REGISTRATION_ADDR_1)/V (My Name)>> << /T (REGISTRATION_ADDR_2)/V (My address)>> ==== 8< ==== It then follows with more fields. If I rename the file to have a .pdf extension then Nautilus says the type is "PDF document" and tries to open it in "Document Viewer" (is that evince?). The Document Viewer then says "File type MATLAB script/function (text/x-matlab) is not supported". ** Affects: gnome-desktop (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- fdf file misrecognised as MATLAB script/function https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319533 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
