[reportlab-users] RE: Emailing Corrupting reportlab PDFs follow up

[Matej Pivoluska]

D=F2a =A9tvrtok 27 M=E1j 2004 14:16 Michael Porter nap=EDsal(a):

Is it possible not to ASCII85 encode every object? I think when Outlook wil=
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see non-ascii data (flate encoded stream), it will handle PDF correctly as=
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binary file.

mP

> I've done some investigation into this and it seems that Outlook is really
> to blame here...
>
> When you send a PDF attachment from Outlook with the default settings it
> encodes the PDF as quoted-printable but doesn't explicitly encode the CRLF
> (with a =3D0D=3D0A sequence). The receiving client will then presumably a=
ssume
> that the line ending characters are unimportant and use those native to t=
he
> platform (which will result in a corrupt PDF on Unix or Macs).
>
> So the problem is that Outlook is regarding the PDF as text rather than
> binary. Outlook appears to ignore the mime-type/file extension when
> deciding on what encoding to use but instead tries to guess from the file
> content. Presumably the "random" element comes in because some PDFs look
> more "binary" than others.
>
> A workaround is to zip up the PDF or set Options|Mail
> Format|Settings|Message Format to UUEncode.
>
> The the real solution would be tell Outlook to always regard .PDF files as
> binary (and hence use base64 encoding). Unfortunately I don't know how to
> do this or even if it's possible. If anyone does, please let me know.
>
>
> Michael Porter
> ReportLab
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