Hi Bill > > Received your images, and after a little manipulation, they opened fine. >Very nice design, and it really illustrates the concepts! > > The files: At first, none would open, giving me invalid or unknown >format errors. I looked at them with a low level dump, and discovered what >appears to be the main problem. Possibly due to some configuration problem >with your email client, or possibly from something else entirely, the >files are being transmitted as Mac bin-hex encoding (which is FINE), but >may not be flagged, so that the recipient's email client properly >recognizes that encoding, in order to extract it. The files were being >saved with their application-dependant extension (.pdf, .jpg), but >actually still containe the "gibberish" that gets sent via email. > > I renamed each file to have the extension ".bhx", which enabled WinZip >to recognize them as encoded files, open them, and permit saving as the >"real" .pdf and .jpg format. Once I did that, they opened fine. > > Mac users may not have a problem with the "raw" files, taking more >information from the content of the file itself, to define how to open it. >Windows users though, may have to go through the rename and un-Zip process >I did... > >Thanks for the images!!
My Pleasure and thanks for the helpful comments. It's only a minority of PC users who have problems with this. Best tony -
