PDF Woes -- Need example

[Karl Bailey]

As already emailed... Happy to supply PDF & example mutt command that will guarantee a broken PDF from both solaris & linux env's.

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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: 28 May 2004 02:01
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: PDF Woes -- Need example

At 01:18 28/05/2004, you wrote:
> > -----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!

Do you have a PDF file which you know which both
a) Outlook 2003 sends as quoted printable, and
b) gets corrupted by the clean message signing function ?

I need something to test against to see if rebuilding using Base64 makes any difference at all, or whether the damage is already done before the message is rebuilt. I don't want to just "suck it and see" as it probably is going to waste a lot of my time...

If you can get something to me quickly, I can add the code before the 1st June release. Would be good to have a fix in that release if we can.
--
Julian Field
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