On 03/20/2013 11:57 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
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
Opens and displays correctly in CentOS 6.4 using default document viewer.
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