Bug 392106

Summary: opening (e)PS files from the commandline
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: RJVB <rjvbertin>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: aacid, simonandric5
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: All   
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Description RJVB 2018-03-20 16:35:24 UTC 
Okular can import (E)PS files and show them as PDF, which isn't surprising given that it has a Ghostscript backend. What's more surprising is that it won't open those files from the commandline. At most I get an empty page. Is this an omission or is there a reason why this is less trivial to implement than I think it should be?
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2018-03-20 21:29:06 UTC 
okular opens ps and eps files just fine from the command line.

Which error do you get?
Comment 2 RJVB 2018-03-20 22:00:12 UTC 
No error, just a white page.

I just see that the file that fails is actually a pdf file that somehow got the eps extension. That's not a problem for ghostscript when left to its own, but probably explains why the backend fails.