http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7410
------- Additional Comments From hans@it.vu.nl 2007-13-02 05:09 ------- One problem is that Wine requires a full path in order to find the Unix executable (e.g. /usr/bin/xpdf instead of just xpdf).
The other problem is that ShellExecute converts the filename to a Windows path which xpdf will not understand.
You'll need a wrapper script like this:
#!/bin/sh xpdf `winepath -u $1`
and then register the fully qualified path to this script as the handler for opening .pdf files.
If it still doesn't work run this command in the directory where "help.pdf" resides:
WINEDEBUG=trace+exec wine start help.pdf
and attach the output here.