Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-21 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 20 March 2013, Jonathan Ryshpan sent: > I'm a little perplexed. Linux doesn't mark files with their type, as > Mac systems do. The file has a .pdf extension, and the file command > shows it as PDF type. > $ file SwedishFlag.pdf > SwedishFlag.pdf: PDF docume

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Murry McEntire
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I've attached a copy of SwedishFlag.pdf. Also SwedishFlag.zip, as > suggested in an earlier posting. Let's see what the mail system does to > them in Linux systems. > > Thanks - jon > > Using view from within google mail (Via Firefox o

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/20/13 23:57, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Here is the start of the section of the message containing the > attachment in question: > Content-Type: application/pdf; name="SwedishFlag.pdf" > Content-Description: > Content-Disposition: inline; filename="SwedishFlag.pdf" >

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 03/20/2013 11:57 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 20:05 +1030, Tim wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 23:41 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I've just completed the first exercise for using inkscape, which is to draw a Swedish flag. I saved it as a PDF and emailed it to a Swedish f

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.03.2013 21:19, schrieb Charlie McVeigh: > Swedish flag here using Fedora 14 x86_64, Evolution and Adobe Reader do the world a favour and disconnect systems with no security updates since years form the internet signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- users mailing list

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Charlie McVeigh
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 14:03 -0400, Roger K. Wells wrote: > Swedish flag here using Adobe reader 9.5.1 > on > Linux rwells-lnx 3.7.9-104.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Feb 24 19:19:12 UTC > 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > received via Thunderbird 17.0.4 > > HTH > roger > > On 03/20/2013 01:46

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Roger K. Wells
Swedish flag here using Adobe reader 9.5.1 on Linux rwells-lnx 3.7.9-104.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Feb 24 19:19:12 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux received via Thunderbird 17.0.4 HTH roger On 03/20/2013 01:46 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: On 03/20/2013 05:12 PM, Fred Smith wrote: [snip] the

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Patrick Lists
On 03/20/2013 05:12 PM, Fred Smith wrote: [snip] the pdf file displays as a swedish flag, here, on Centos 6.4, using mutt. Same for me on F17 x86_64 using Thunderbird. Regards, Patrick -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://a

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:57:29AM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 20:05 +1030, Tim wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 23:41 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > I've just completed the first exercise for using inkscape, which is to > > > draw a Swedish flag. I saved it as a P

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.03.2013 16:57, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: > I've attached a copy of SwedishFlag.pdf. Also SwedishFlag.zip, as > suggested in an earlier posting. Let's see what the mail system does to > them in Linux systems. well and our dbmail-server does not trash anything double-klick in thunderbird a

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.03.2013 16:57, schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan: > I'm a little perplexed. Linux doesn't mark files with their type, as > Mac systems do. The file has a .pdf extension, and the file command > shows it as PDF type. > $ file SwedishFlag.pdf > SwedishFlag.pdf: PDF document, version 1.5 linux doe

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 23:41 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I've just completed the first exercise for using inkscape, which is to > draw a Swedish flag. I saved it as a PDF and emailed it to a Swedish > friend, but all he got when he viewed the image was an empty > rectangle. It seems the troub

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 15:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/20/13 15:21, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > This much I know already. The "-f" option is required to force the > > conversion for binary files. The file I get after the unix2dos > > conversion is exactly the same as the file my recipient e

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/20/13 15:21, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I suspect the cat has been on your chest (8-). Oh, now that the weather has turned warmer I am out of excuses. :-) -- From now on, at least during winter time, Im going to blame all spelling an grammar erros on the cat sitting on my chest every time

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/20/13 15:21, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > This much I know already. The "-f" option is required to force the > conversion for binary files. The file I get after the unix2dos > conversion is exactly the same as the file my recipient emailed back to > me, and suffers exactly the same problem as

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-20 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 14:52 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 03/20/13 14:41, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I've just completed the first exercise for using inkscape, which is > to draw a Swedish flag. I saved it as a PDF and emailed it to a > Swedish friend, but all he got when he viewed the image was

Re: OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/20/13 14:41, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I've just completed the first exercise for using inkscape, which is to draw a > Swedish flag. I saved it as a PDF and emailed it to a Swedish friend, but > all he got when he viewed the image was an empty rectangle. It seems the > trouble is that so

OT: Mail system trashes Swedish flag

2013-03-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I've just completed the first exercise for using inkscape, which is to draw a Swedish flag. I saved it as a PDF and emailed it to a Swedish friend, but all he got when he viewed the image was an empty rectangle. It seems the trouble is that somewhere in the mail system, probably in their Windows m