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

[Hans-Joachim Leidinger <jojo@buchonline.net>]

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Barry,

did you test the pdf file outside from minivend? Did you get this file
via your browser with success?
Are you sure, the problem is in minivend?

Regards,

	Joachim


Barry Treahy wrote:
> 
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> 
> Joachim, I took your suggestion and modified it slightly for Unix to:
> 
> perl -npi.bak -e "s:\n::g" ATT.html
> 
> which did remove the new-line but I'm not sure that this is what Mike was suggestion.  Since the
> results with this modified page is still not desirable, I fell-back to the original page with
> new-lines.
> 
> The page load still fails with the same "An error has occurred while trying to use this document."
> when running on the client Netscape with Acrobat.  Looking at the source, this is what you see for
> the cell in the table:
> 
> <TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN=LEFT><!--MV tag for PDF file--></TD>
> 
> The original source was:
> 
> <TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN=LEFT>
> [tag op=header]
> Content-Type: application/pdf
> [/tag][file PDF/pdf.001]
> </TD>
> 
> Barry
> 
> Hans-Joachim Leidinger wrote:
> 
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Hans-Joachim Leidinger <jojo@buchonline.net>     ******
> >
> > Barry Treahy wrote:
> > > Mike Heins wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > >
> > > You are correct the the embedded tag didn't work as stated.  The page fails to load
> > > after starting Acrobat with 'An error has occurred while trying to use this
> > > document.'   I attempted the perl statement above on the page containting the tags,
> > > but I do not have chomp installed in my Perl distribution.  I checked CPAN and issued
> > > a search at their site and came up blank.
> > >
> > > Barry
> >
> > If i know right, ´chomp´ is not an extra module. ´Chomp´ is a perl
> > syntax like ´print´, ´if else ...´etc.
> > If you use
> >
> >         perl -h
> >
> > in your console, you get a list of options and you can see the
> > description for -p and -i. See README-win.txt too. It is similar like
> >
> >         perl -npi.bak -e "s:\r::g" <file-you-edited>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >         Joachim
> >
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