Re: pdf email attachment

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:20 09/26/2000 , Bill Meecham wrote:
>Hi All - I would like to email an attached pdf file from the as400.  I'm 
>using the qtmmsndm api which is working fine with text and html but when I 
>try it with a pdf file I get garbage output.  It looks like I need to 
>specify a different code page.  Has anyone come across this and an 
>resolution for it?  Thank you - Bill

The QtmmSendMail documentation says "This file must contain an 
Internet-ready MIME note that adheres to the standards called Request for 
Comment (RFC)."  If that's missing, I'd guess the file would be treated as 
text, which sounds like what you're describing. If this is news, I guess 
you'll need to dig up the RFC for the particulars. I sent a pdf file to 
myself using SNDDST and Joe Pluta's CPYSPLFPDF utility, just to see what 
the header looks like. Here's what was in the file when I received it:

  %PDF-1.2
  %pj-0.22
  %Generated with pj 0.22, Copyright (C) 1998 Etymon Systems, Inc. 
<info@etymon.com>
  %+¶-_          (x'25D3E3CFE2')
  1 0 obj        (x'312030206F626A')
  [
  /PDF
  /Text
  ]

The line breaks are x'0A' not x'0D0A' The [/PDF/TEXT] looks suspiciously 
like a mime type to me, but I have no clue what the rest of the stuff is 
for. Maybe some of it is part of the mime note also. The parenthesis and 
hex notations are mine.
Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/
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