Re: [mv] .PDF files in a MV page

[Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>]

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Thanks Mike, I'll be out of the office until next Monday, but I'll try your
suggestions then...

Barry

Mike Heins wrote:

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> Quoting Mr. Christopher F. Miller (cfm@maine.com):
> >
> >
> > Ah that is a can of worms, made worse since the byte-range code
> > in Acrobat readers has known errors.  (See Adobe web site
> > on that.)  They are definitely worse with Exploder browser.
> >
> > Specifically, however, I can't tell from your question what
> > you are asking.  Do you mean a link to a PDF or a PDF actually
> > **embedded** in the page?  Do you mean it works with browsers
> > except on Windows or do you mean it doesn't work with Exploder
> > or that you haven't tried it with other browsers?
> >
> > There are very definitely browser/server issues is byte-range
> > and PDF.  I can't think of any minivend issues at all.
> >
>
> There might be a problem with this code:
>
> [tag op=header]
> Content-Type: application/pdf
> [/tag][file content/something.pdf]
>
> I am guessing that there will be one byte appended
> when creating the file with an editor (appended newline).
> There are ways to strip the appending newline:
>
>         perl -0777 -pi 'chomp' pages/deliver_pdf.html
>
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