[IPOL discuss] PDF and attachments

[Pascal Monasse]

Dear all,
Same thing here with okular (0.15.3): the same weird filename that uncompresses 
successfully when renamed as .tar.gz. It is to be noted that okular signals 
the attachment prominently, it cannot be missed.
Best,
Pascal

On Monday, December 24, 2012 10:23:00 AM Juan Cardelino wrote:
> Dear all,
>            With Adobe Reader 9.4.7 under ubuntu linux (12.10) I could not
> find any attachment. Using okular (0.15.3) on the same machine, I found the
> attachment but with a weird filename (þÿ). However using the file command I
> realized that it was a tar.gz and uncompressed it successfuly.
> Using the default document viewer (version 3.6) I found it, with the
> correct filename,
> 
> I think it works nicely (on some pograms), but it seems like a hidden or
> little known feature. In evince I had to go to a couple of menus until
> reaching the attachment. Maybe linking also those attachments from the text
> could help.
> 
> Regards,
>             Juan
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Nicolas Limare <
> 
> nicolas.limare at cmla.ens-cachan.fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just discovered that PDF files can have attachments, external files
> > embedded in the PDF document, which can be read and saved locally with
> > Adobe Reader as well as free readers like Okular ou Evince.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#File_attachments
> > 
> > This could be a way to distribute all the article content together as
> > a single file. For the moment, for IPOL, it would not replace the
> > manuscript and source code as currently available on the article
> > pages, but it could be a third "all-in-one" option.
> > 
> > I created an example here, with the latest article:
> > http://dev.ipol.im/~nil/tmp/ipol/pdf/article_lr_code.pdf
> > 
> > Can you find the attached file? Do you think it is convenient? Should
> > we add this to the IPOL article files?
> > 
> > --
> > Nicolas LIMARE - CMLA - ENS Cachan
> > http://limare.perso.math.cnrs.fr/
> > IPOL - image processing on line
> > http://www.ipol.im/
> > 
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