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@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@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-00sr@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@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