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

[Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>]

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I've been experimenting with numerous variations and stepped back to just the HTML tag embed.  It would
seem that maybe MV is choking on the insert attempts but embed works...

<EMBED SRC="/midwest-mi/images/001.pdf" WIDTH="480" HEIGHT="580" ALIGN="BOTTOM">

Don't know why I didn't try that first...

Barry




Hans-Joachim Leidinger wrote:

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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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