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It's getting hosed in the sending email client... Think about those annoying
WINMAIL.DAT's that pile up
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Wickenden [mailto:pwickenden@sevenww.co.uk]
>Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 11:50 AM
>Subject: [WinMac] PDFs suffixed .dat
>
>
>Hi all
>
>We do a lot of PDF creation on the Mac for viewing on Windows and Macs. We
>have one workflow that does not work 100% - if we send a Mac-created PDF
>from one of our PC-based email applications to a Mac - sometimes it will
>arrive, still with its icon, but suffixed .dat instead of .pdf and the file
>is rendered useless.
>
>I have yet to pin down whether this is occurring with particular Macs or
>random Macs, but, although rare, its not restricted to one client.
>
>I assume this is different to the 7-bit/8-bit corruption that is resolved by
>binhex encoding. Is the PCs standard encoding (Base64) interfering? If so,
>why, when he sends the same PDF across the room to my Mac, does the problem
>not re-occur?
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