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Re: PDF Attachment is altered with filename and other characters

jwmjPens — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:29:32 GMT

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892730

This site shows that InfoPath puts a few 'header' fields before righting the actual file. Is there a way to override this code?

Re: PDF Attachment is altered with filename and other characters

jwmjPens — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:07:07 GMT

This is the same file after it is attached to the InfoPath form.

Both are saved as txt files to 1) allow it to be uploaded to this site and 2) better display the change made to the file.

Re: PDF Attachment is altered with filename and other characters

jwmjPens — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:04:13 GMT

This is the file in its original state.

Re: PDF Attachment is altered with filename and other characters

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:28:22 GMT

Can you attach your screenshot under the Options tab on a reply? I'm not sure how much help I can be, but if others can see your screenshot, they may be able to help...

Re: PDF Attachment is altered with filename and other characters

jwmjPens — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:19:13 GMT

Yes, the attached pdf is sent within the xml as a byte stream. For testing purposes, the stream is sent thru a base 64 decode and then displayed. Viewing the pdf file within Wordpad prior to sending thru the form and after sending it thru the form demonstrates the differences highlighted above.

Thanks for helping!

Re: PDF Attachment is altered with filename and other characters

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:06:40 GMT

Your image is not displaying.

Are you trying to get the attached PDF from the InfoPath XML? All attachment files are stored as base64 in the XML - are you saying there are additional changes after decoding the base64?

PDF Attachment is altered with filename and other characters

jwmjPens — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:19:55 GMT

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 A pdf that has not been attached to InfoPath and sent via http to a java service looks like this (if opened using Wordpad):

%PDF-1.5
%äãÏÒ
1 0 obj
[/PDF/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI/Text]
endobj
4 0 obj
<</Length 5 0 R
/Filter/FlateDecode
>>
stream
xœ}=kÂA [...]

A pdf that has been attached to InfoPath and sent via http to a java service looks like this:

CIFA[paragraph symbol] xS- + A R 1 3 0 7 0 2 X = I . p d f %PDF-1.5
%µµµµ
1 0 obj
<</Type/Catalog/Pages 2 0 R/Lang(en-US) /StructTreeRoot 13 0 R/MarkInfo<</Marked true>>>>
endobj
2 0 obj
<</Type/Pages/Count 2/Kids[ 3 0 R 8 0 R] >>
endobj
3 0 obj
<</Type/Page/Parent 2 0 R/Resources<</Font<</F1 5 0 R>>/XObject<</Image7 7 0 R>>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 614.88 845.28] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<</Type/Group/S/Transparency/CS/DeviceRGB>>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>>
endobj
4 0 obj

Where would the additional info (highlighted in bold) come from? This is causing a problem when sending the pdf to a printer.