According to John Coll: > Hi Gilles > > Please forgive me for sending this to you and not the mailing list. I am > unsure how to post to the list but really wanted to share this with you. It's easy. Just e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] - you don't even have to be subscribed. I've cc'ed the list, though, so your tip makes it on there. Thanks for the info. Looks like I need to upgrade my xpdf! > I too have seen the two strange characters in the title field of PDF > files. I tried all the patches but without success. Finally I looked at > the pdf file itself and compared the end of it with the output from > pdfinfo. pdfinfo was incorrectly reading the Unicode as ASCII. > Upgrading pdfinfo from 0.91 to 0.92 solved the problem. I don't think > it is anything at all to do with htdig. > > Here is part of the pdf file > /Creator <FEFF004D006900630072006F0073006F0066007400200057006F007200640020> > /CreationDate (D:20010909223317) > /Subject <FEFF007300750062006A006500630074> > /Title <FEFF006F0076006500720076006900650077002E007000640066> > /Author <FEFF006A006F0068006E> > /Producer (Acrobat PDFWriter 4.05 for Windows) > /Keywords<FEFF006B006500790077006F007200640073> > > The Title of the file is "overview.pdf" and you can clearly see that in > Unicode 006F=o 0076=v etc. However pdfinfo 0.91 could only see the > FEFF00 "string" and hence presented the two "characters" FE FF before > seeing a null termination byte. > > Hope this helps. I'm sure it'll help many. Thanks again. > regards > john > > p.s. and thanks a million for a GREAT product! Hey, I'm just one of many, many contributors. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
