ANSI draft in PDF format?

Stephan Rudlof sr at evolgo.de
Wed Jul 5 18:31:05 UTC 2000


Dear Karl,

Karl Ramberg wrote:
> 
> Stephan Rudlof wrote:
> > Curiously downloading the pdf-version hasn't worked for me, it just
> > stopped a few percent before finishing (Netscape stalled) and finished
> > then with removing the downloaded file; any idea?
> >
> Sound like a file mapping thing. The .pdf is mapped to open a certain app.
> If that fails netscape silently drops the file. Really annoying if you download something
> big over a slow modem.
> 
> Karl

Files with Mime type 'application/pdf' and ending 'pdf' are registered
as 'Unknown:PromptUser'.

Probably I should use a newer version of Netscape Navigator...

Greetings,

Stephan


PS: Some other communication about this issue:

Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
> I'm guessing there's a bad interaction between hte software you used to
> download, and Comanche.  What software, exactly, did you use?  I'll
> forward the info to the Comanche/Swiki maintainers to play with in case
> they ever have spare time again!
> 
> -Lex
> 
> Stephan Rudlof <sr at evolgo.de> wrote:
> > Dear Lex,
> >
> > it's curious:
> >
> > I was able to acroread my partially downloaded version with filesize
> > -rw-r--r--   1 sr       users     1273856 Jul  1 21:59
> > standard_v1_9-indexed.pdf
> > !
> >
> > It's possible to see 3 references, probably some things in between can
> > be wrong, though...
> >
> > Then I was able to download the not indexed version locally
> >       http://localhost/doc/tmp/standard_v1_9.pdf
> > from a web server at my own computer without any problems!
> >
> > Don't have any further idea now... I will try it again later from minnow
> > if it works again (currently refusing connections). Unfortunately this
> > test is quiet expensive over my modem connection (have to download all
> > of the file!).
> >
> >
> > One comment:
> >
> > Lex Spoon wrote:
> > >
> > > Well if it's not downloading the whole thing that would certainly be
> > > bad.  Hmm, the first lines of my file are:
> > >
> > > %PDF-1.3^M%<E2><E3><CF><D3>
> > > 992 0 obj^M<< ^M/Linearized 1 ^M/O 994 ^M/H [ 14358 4716 ] ^M/L 1286333
> > > ^M/E 119
> > > 361 ^M/N 304 ^M/T 1266374 ^M>> ^Mendobj^M
> > >
> > > (where <E2>, etc, are characters with ASCII > 128).
> >
> >
> > These could be the same ones as them shown for me...
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Stephan
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > What software are you using to download things?
> > >
> > > -Lex
> > >
> > > Stephan Rudlof <sr at evolgo.de> wrote:
> > > > Lex,
> > > >
> > > > Lex Spoon wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > It worked okay, and I just tried again.  The version of Netscape
> > > > > Navigator I used is:
> > > > >
> > > > >         Netscape 4.72/Fortify 31-Jan-00
> > > >
> > > > sr at Klaus:~ > netscape -version
> > > > Netscape 4.61/Export, 27-May-99; (c) 1995-1998 Netscape Communications
> > > > Corp.
> > > >
> > > > I don't get the pdf-file fully downloaded at all: "99% of 1256k,
> > > > stalled" was in the popup window, then it went further and removed the
> > > > downloaded file!
> > > >
> > > > But in between I have made a copy of the not fully downloaded one, it
> > > > starts with:
> > > >
> > > > %PDF-1.3^M%âãÏÓ
> > > > 992 0 obj^M<< ^M/Linearized 1 ^M/O 994 ^M/H [ 14358 4716 ] ^M/L 1286333
> > > > ^M/E 119
> > > > 0000014213 00000 n
> > > > 0000019074 00000 n
> > > > 0000019234 00000 n
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > Possibly this could give a hint?
> > > >
> > > > What's the beginning of the correctly downloaded one?
> > > >
> > > > I have had the same problem with my original uploaded file, the solution
> > > > was to upload a gzip'ed version to the Swiki, whose downloading has
> > > > worked for me.
> > > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > Stephan
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
> >    "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
> >     You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
> >     -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3

-- 
Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
   "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
    You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
    -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3





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