PDF Woes
David Hooton
david at PLATFORMHOSTING.COM
Fri May 28 01:18:59 IST 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Friday, 28 May 2004 12:29 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: PDF Woes
>
>
> Here is the start of a PDF file before Outlook has got anywhere near it:
> 0000000 % P D F - 1 . 3 \r % â ã Ï Ó \r \n
> 0000020 1 3 1 7 4 0 o b j \r
> And when it has been sent to a copy of sendmail (but before sendmail has
> done anything with the data at all)
> %
> 0000660 P D F - 1 . 3 = 0 D % = E 2 = E
> 0000700 3 = C F = D 3 \n 1 3 1 7 4 0
> 0000720 o b j = 0 D
> The first \r gets correctly turned into =0D. The \r\n is converted into
> \n.
> So Outlook has already screwed the file by converting it into
> quoted-printable. When these lines are put back together by MailScanner,
> if
> it has had to rebuild the body of the message, it packs them according to
> the quoted-printable spec, which leaves them in a state where Acrobat
> can't
> read them.
>
> What I will try is have MailScanner rebuild text/pdf and application/pdf
> (and the x- versions) as Base64, to see if that helps. It can't help
> Outlook's corruption, which has already happened, but it may avoid making
> the situation any worse.
Thankyou!
Regards,
David Hooton
Senior Partner
Platform Networks
www.platformnetworks.net
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