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Try throwing the attachments that have been sent through the email onto stuffit expander (comes as standard with Mac OS9) not only will this unstuff/unzip the package, if it is possible it will also correct the encoding for the file to work on the mac. Martin > -----Original Message----- > From: Susan Tropeano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PDF-Basics] what AOL does to pdfs > > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > I'm on a Mac and I don't have an iDisk or an FTP site. If AOL is > compressing the file what do the users do to decompress the file? I > went to my neighbors house to try to open it for her but couldn't get > Winzip to open it. Doesn't AOL provide any instructions for this?? How > do they get away with that with all the customers they have? > > > On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 05:58 PM, G4 1 wrote: > > > > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > AOL compresses the file. They might be able to rename the extension or > > open it through Winzip, but the chances aren't good. Until the last > > update of AOL, PDF's were the only thing I could safely send to my AOL > > customers. We've tried a myriad of solutions all to no avail. I now > > send my AOL customers an email telling them the file/pdf is available > > on my iDisk and I give them a link and a public password so they can > > down load the file without the AOL hassles of email. If you're on a > > PC, a regular FTP site would work also. > > > > > > To change your subscription: > > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html > > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
