>I just proved that it's not unique to AOL accounts. When I attempted to >send the plain old .pdf file with no compression I got a warning that >attachments being sent to the Internet =must= use one of the available >encoding schemes. I tried zipping the .pdf file and sending that, but no >joy... Emailer insisted on encoding =that=. > >I would up sending separate posts: the one to Jen used AppleDouble since >she uses Windoze (the 7.4MB file went out at 10MB); the one to Keith (G4) >went out stuffed (also 10MB). Wonder why they didn't let Emailer check >for encoding and accept that, rather than =requiring= it?
Encoding and compression are two different things. I'm not exactly sure why Emailer gave you the error that it did, as it should have defaulted to whatever was in your account prefs for encoding (when it says "Service Default" that means whatever your account prefs says EXECPT for AOL accounts, then it uses a special AOL format). Yes, ALL attachments need to be encoded, but not all need to be compressed. Encoding does nothing more than take an 8 bit binary file (most files and all applications) and converts it into a 7 bit ASCII text stream. The reason for this is email can't support 8 bit binary data, only 7 bit ascii. So all binary files must first be converted into a text file. Different encoding methods have different ways of making that conversion. A good default choice is AppleDouble. It is widely supported on both the Mac and PC worlds, and it will handle both dual fork mac files and single fork PC files. (BTW: for clarity, compression reduces the file size, but creates an 8 bit binary file, so even a compressed file will need to be encoded... and the reason compression did little to the file size of the PDF was because the PDF format can already be well optimized or "compressed", so doing it again will have no effect.... this is NOT true with all PDFs, they can also be poorly optimized and so compression may have a large effect on them... it just so happens the one you were trying to do was already as small as it was probably going to get). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
