On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 20:05 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 23:41 -0700, 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,
>
> Check the MIME type that your mailer is sending it as. It should be a
> binary one specific to the actual file type. And the file should be not
> be converted, in any way, at either end.
>
> However, if you're mistakenly sending it as a text/plain attachment,
> mail systems may do whatever they usually do as text files go through
> them, which can include translating line endings.
>
> Likewise, if their end doesn't properly handle the type of attachment
> that it's receiving. Some systems label PDF files as simply being
> application/octet-stream, which just means generic non-specific binary,
> and some systems mishandle such files.
>
> When you say you saved it as a PDF, are you actually saving as a PDF
> filetype, or just tacking PDF onto the end of the filename? Related to
> that, are you sending a PDF file type without giving it a PDF filename?
I'm a little perplexed. Linux doesn't mark files with their type, as
Mac systems do. The file has a .pdf extension, and the file command
shows it as PDF type.
$ file SwedishFlag.pdf
SwedishFlag.pdf: PDF document, version 1.5
> How did you email it? What mail program did you use?
The email program is evolution. I clicked "Send".
Here is the start of the section of the message containing the
attachment in question:
Content-Type: application/pdf; name="SwedishFlag.pdf"
Content-Description:
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="SwedishFlag.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I've attached a copy of SwedishFlag.pdf. Also SwedishFlag.zip, as
suggested in an earlier posting. Let's see what the mail system does to
them in Linux systems.
Thanks - jon
Attachment:
SwedishFlag.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
<<attachment: SwedishFlag.zip>>
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