Re: pdf attachments
Michael Tatge writes:
[...]
> Is is just this one pdf, or does it happen with all of them?
I did some systematic testing with pdfs in my account. see below.
> As a workaround you should be able to <edit-type> resp. <edit-encoding>.
Which is what I have resorted to doing ...
Paul Walker writes:
[...]
> Out of interest, is it just mutt that gets confused, or does (say) file get
> it wrong as well?
$ file S50BW-107021415590.pdf irdc0956.pdf
S50BW-107021415590.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
irdc0956.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
$
(This is the same document - the first version was created by our Konica
printer/scanner, the second version exported from .xls with OO 2.0.4).
Here's a short list of tests with a few pdf files I found. The first column
is the output of the file command, the second one the creator (as shown by
Acrobat reader -> Document properties), the final one how mutt encodes it.
file magic created mutt mime
------------------------------------------------
PDF v1.2 Distiller 3.01a text/plain
PDF v1.3 5D PDFlib text/plain
PDF v1.3 5D PDFlib application/octet-stream
PDF v1.4 50BW-1 (Konica scanner) text/plain
PDF v1.4 OO 2.1 application/octet-stream
There seems to be no system to it :-/