Only PDF 1.0 was allowed to be "pure ASCII". Any version from 1.1 on, has to be binary.
Leonard -----Original Message----- From: Mike Marchywka [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Blank PDF after it is transfered through SMTP > > > Then you've been REALLY LUCKY - since QP and PDF have never gotten > along. I guess my interest here was in determining how primitive a valid PDF would have to be if it was assured of being ASCII, if that is even possible. If you could write out PDF's with such a constraint they may work better with some other tools but obviously you'd expect to drop many things and make files even bigger ( which is often fine for some intermediate things like object files) . > > From: Jiangang Song > > I appreciate your response. And I am well-known of the RFC > spec before I post. We have been using "Quoted-printable" to transfer > PDF for the past 10 years. I thought my question had just missed something obvious but I guess if you'd even looked at it you would done a binary diff first, found the missing high bits and CRLF issues and made histograms of historical PDF files and found no bad cahrs and recognized the problem and then just asked if itext can generate pure ASCII pdf files. Not an unreasaonble question, see comments above.This is a reason however not to always use the latest and greatest features, sometimes they just don't work with the existing stuff. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
