[sf-lug] Serious Newbie, Trouble with PDF's

[Sameer Verma]

Truth E. Ness wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am as it says, a serious newbie.....
>
> I paid for and downloaded some old newspaper articles from the NY 
> Times website, everything looked fine, and it said it was saving each 
> of them as /home/cheryl/.mozilla/firefox/jglar1hg.default/Cache/(then 
> a long string of numbers).  But now when I try to email them as 
> attachments, they don't show up at the receiver's mailbox, or they 
> open and there's no document.  I was emailing them to Officemax so 
> they can print them, my printer's not working.  Any idea what I did / 
> am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help  :)
>
> Cheryl
>
> x X x
>
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Try renaming the attachments to something simpler (instead of the long 
string of numbers). Its possible something is "sanitizing" the 
attachments thinking they are malicious.

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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