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Thanks to everyone who responded. I ended up converting filenames with non-Roman characters into ASCII using the % notation, e.g. Ж.jpeg -> %04%16.jpg Not pretty but now at it works. Peter Persits Persits Software, Inc. http://www.persits.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olaf Drümmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 8:22 AM Subject: Re(2): [PDFdev] Filespec: Unicode filenames > > PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > _____________________________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:56:38 -0400 > > >> but that there is no (or not sufficent) support in Acrobat 6 to > >>deal with Unicode filenames. > > > > I think it's insufficient or incomplete. It does appear to > >work just fine for many things (like opening & display Unicode-named > >PDFs) but I just tried using the File Attachment feature and that > >does NOT support them :(. > > We found that the only approach that works is if the encoding in the file > name is the same as for the current (OS / Acrobat) language. Anything > else may not work. Try to embed a file on an English system/Acrobat that > has an Umlaut in its file name, and it won't work... > > The only strategy that gives reliable results - i.e. across arbitrary > machines/languages - is to use only plain ASCII characters between 32 and > 127 in file names when these need be used in file references inside a PDF > (BTW - same applies for the whole path). > > Olaf Druemmer > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
