[thechat] MS Word Weirdnes
Bob Davis
bobd at members.evolt.org
Tue Feb 27 15:43:04 CST 2001
on 2/27/01 3:21 PM, Joe Crawford at jcrawford at avencom.com wrote:
> Some thoughts on the Document issues...
> - filename
I've used that file name for a long time, and it hasn't caused a problem.
> -exotic, possibly hidden characters in the name?
Now, that could be. Are umlauts exotic? (ä) There might be something in
there that is odd.
> -make sure ends with .doc
It does.
> - upload
> - make sure to upload in binary
Yup.
> - "telephone game" effect
> - perhaps it's been transferred a number of times,
> and reedited several different times, introducing
> some new problem. start fresh with new word document
Now, this, I believe, is the most likely story. My old file was ~90k, but
the one Michele sent to me (from Office2k) was only 44k. I wonder if it's
just cruft in there?
Maybe I have versioning turned on or somthing.
> - testing something new?
> - try making a brand spanking new document, save as word
> and send/upload to someone on windows, see if that breaks it
Yup. That's where I'm going with this.
> - encoding/fonts
Arial and Georgia. Nothing weird.
> - perhaps a corrupt font which got embedded?
Could be.
> - exotic encoding (unicode? something else?)
Well, I let the mail client encode it a couple different ways (AppleDouble
and MIME/64) and it bailed. The Resource fork is unicode, and win machines
choke on it if you try to open them.
> - mime-type on server?
> - perhaps not set correctly? (though diff with emailing
> it tend to make this unlikely)
>
I wonder. I'll have to ask (though it shouldn't work for me either, should
it?)
maybe I should just buy Acrobat Exchange and be done with it.
Thanks Joe.
Give me a ring in Austin - let me know if you need the number.
bob
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