[reportlab-users] problem with reportlab generating pdf

[Justinas Urbanavicius]

ok maybe attaching the file itself will help out :)
well when i open it isn't what is should be

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:


> Justinas Urbanavicius wrote:

>

>> well this i got when opening pdf file, there is this message only, instead

>> of the wanted content. So i presumed that it was an error. if it was raw

>> PDF

>> like Andy wrote, i wouldn't see this strange marks when opened with adobe

>> reader, and i did copy this from the pdf

>>

>>

> The stange marks at the tope are actually some japanese glyph that andy put

> in to indicate early on that the PDF is actually an 8bit quantity ie not

> pure ascii text. Further down there's part of a compressed stream; other

> stuff is PDF controls/comments which are mostly, but not always human

> readable. This is indeed a PDF document by the looks of it. Is it possible

> that PDF was converted by something into PDF? It should certainly be

> possible to render most of a PDF document using reportlab.

>

>  On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

>>

>>  Justinas Urbanavicius wrote:

>>>

>>>  hi, i'm using pisa 3.0 with is based on reportlab and when trying to

>>>> convert

>>>> html file to pdf, the following error is produced.

>>>> i myself can't understand a single thing what is here written, maybe

>>>> someone

>>>> can helpout?

>>>>

>>>>  the stuff below looks like a raw pdf document. If you're seeing it in a

>>> browser it probably means the server/application is not sending the right

>>> mime type or your browser is misinterpreting it (ie hasn't got a plugin

>>> for

>>> pdf etc etc). I would try and look at the pdf, but it has been totally

>>> corrupted by email and as  PDF is a binary format I won't be able to use

>>> it.

>>>

>>>

>>>  %PDF-1.3

>>>> %ӌ˞ ReportLab Generated PDF document http://www.reportlab.com

>>>> % 'BasicFonts': class PDFDictionary

>>>> 1 0 obj

>>>>

>>>>  ........

>>>

>>>   /Info 5 0 R

>>>>  /Root 4 0 R

>>>>  /Size 9 >>

>>>> startxref

>>>> 3073

>>>> %%EOF

>>>>

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