[reportlab-users] Reducing use of 7-bit characters

[Yoann Roman]

>> I've seen a few threads on here that talk about Outlook's tendency to 

>> encode RL PDFs as quoted-printable because of the low ratio of non-

>> 7-bit characters. We're running into occasional issues with this that, 

>> as far as I can tell, are from mail server mangling (same recipient/

>> sender/PDF, different results).

>

> If you will permit me to be blunt, so what?  The quoted-printable

> version works just fine, and it takes 25% less bandwidth than base64.


The point is that, from experience, the quoted-printable version does 
not work just fine. Outlook does not encode the carriage returns / line 
feeds like it's supposed to for a binary file, and it seems something 
mangles them during transmission or the receiving end uses a different 
line break sequence.

Given the size of these PDFs, the 25% increase is insignificant.

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Yoann Roman