On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 14:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/20/13 14:41, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I've just completed the first exercise for using inkscape, which is > to draw a Swedish flag. I saved it as a PDF and emailed it to a > Swedish friend, but all he got when he viewed the image was an empty > rectangle. It seems the trouble is that somewhere in the mail system, > probably in their Windows mail reader, text lines in the PDF were > converted from Unix style NL termination to DOS style CR/NL > termination. Sure enough when I converted the file on my system using > the command: > > > > unix2dos -n -f SwedishFlag.pdf SwedishFlag+cr.pdf > > > > the output file displays as an empty box, using either okular or acroread. > > > > Does anyone know what's going on here, or how to send such a file to > a Windows machine without it's being trashed? > > At this point all I know is this.... > > Any PDF file to which I apply the conversion results in what you > describe. A PDF file contains binary information. As such, I don't > think the experiment is valid. > > >From the man page... > > The Dos2unix package includes utilities "dos2unix" and "unix2dos" to > convert plain text files in DOS or Mac format to Unix format and vice > versa. > > A PDF isn't a plain text file. > > I would ask the recipient to check the file size they have received. This much I know already. The "-f" option is required to force the conversion for binary files. The file I get after the unix2dos conversion is exactly the same as the file my recipient emailed back to me, and suffers exactly the same problem as the one I convert on my own system. Which is how I know that it's carriage return conversion that is causing the trouble with email and not something else. The **real** question is: Why is it that when I email a PDF file to a Windows machine it usually can be read without difficulty? What's the trouble with the Swedish flag? > -- > >From now on, at least during winter time, Im going to blame all > spelling an grammar erros on the cat sitting on my chest every time I > sit down at the computer.... I suspect the cat has been on your chest (8-). All the best - jon -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
