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Adobe Acrobat 5.0 on Windows 2000. File Attachment tool does not work with filenames containing exotic characters (Russian, Chinese, etc.) If it did work, I could examine the generated /Filespec dictionary and figure out how Acrobat encoded the filename, but since Acrobat refuses to work with those filenames, I am at a loss. Thanks :-) Peter Persits Persits Software, Inc. http://www.persits.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Storer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 6:26 PM Subject: RE: [PDFdev] Filespec: Unicode filenames > > PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > _____________________________________________________________ > > Allow me to ask Leonard's questions for him: > > What version[s] of acrobat are you using to test your PDFs with? > What OS[s] (and version?) are you running acrobat on? > What tools (or homegrown code) are you using to edit/create the PDFs? > > --Mark Storer > Software Engineer > Cardiff Software > #include <disclaimer> > typdef std::disclaimer<Cardiff> Discard; > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Persits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 3:15 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [PDFdev] Filespec: Unicode filenames > > > > > > > > PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > > _____________________________________________________________ > > > > Jon, > > > > Thanks for your suggestion. I just tried UTF-8 and that did > > not work either. > > Besides, I would imagine, Adobe would mention such an > > important piece of > > information in the documentation. > > > > What;s interesting is that when using File Attachment Tool, > > Adobe Acrobat > > itself refuses to attach a Unicode-named file. There are no > > errors, the file > > just does not get attached.... I am starting to think that > > this is a bug in > > Acrobat. > > > > Peter Persits > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jon Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:51 PM > > Subject: RE: [PDFdev] Filespec: Unicode filenames > > > > > > > > > > PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Does your filename consist of only that Russian letter? The angle > > > bracket representation for strings is just a way of specifying a > > > sequence of bytes (a string) as 2 hex codes per byte. You might try > > > encoding the filename containing the Russian letter as > > utf8, then use > > > the angle bracket representation to write the string for > > readability. > > > The reader might recognize that (based on the locale of > > your machine). > > > > > > Jon Anderson > > > http://www.bengtcg.com > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Persits > > > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:48 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [PDFdev] Filespec: Unicode filenames > > > > > > > > > > > > PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > << /Type /Filespec > > > /F (filename.txt) > > > >> > > > > > > In a filespec dictionary, how do you specify a Unicode file name? > > > > > > The PDF Ref says: "In PDF 1.2 or higher a file > > specification may contain > > > multiple-byte character codes represented in hexadecimal > > form between > > > angle brackets." (3.10.1). That is pretty much all it says. > > > > > > I tried to encode the russian letter Ж (unicode 0x0416) in > > many ways, > > > with or without angle brackets, Little Endian, Big Endian, with and > > > without Unicode markers, but the Reader refuses to > > recognize the file > > > name. I tried: > > > > > > /F <0416> > > > /F <1604> > > > /F <FFFE0416> > > > /F <FEFF0416> > > > /F <FFFE1604> > > > /F <FEFF1604> > > > > > > but all in vain. Is it even possible? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > > To change your subscription: > > > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html > > > > > > > > > > > > To change your subscription: > > > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html > > > > > > > > > > > > To change your subscription: > > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
