Re: [SL] latex dilemma & blank emails

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Hi Dieter,

Quoting Dieter Simader from [05/04/02 10:12 -0700]:
> brackets and slashes are not in the conversion filter and caused a latex
> error. This is all (?) fixed in 1.8.4
> 
My latex problems are now to do more with the formatting in the templates rather
than the programming or API. I can get postscript output now with dvips.

Pdf is another story... the invoice saves as is.pl.html from opera. This is a
55KB, 3 page pdf file that is balnk except for a couple lines on page 3.
If you want, I can send a copy of any of these files for you to view....

> I uploaded an upgrade file for 1.8.3 in the meantime until I release the
> new code.
Okay, I'll install it, and try again later.
> 
> The blank emails are a case of MS Outlook not being able to decipher
> BASE64 attachments. I am not sure what it is. I used the old BASE64 code
> from the Mailer package at CPAN. This works fine for pine and Netscape.
> 
I don't use M$ products. Here's what I use:
Redhat 7.1 w/ 2.4.3-12 kernel
Opera 5.05 for browsing
mutt-1.2.5.1-0.7 for email

I just sent another html invoice to myself from a netscape 3.74 browser to see
if it's a problem isolated to sending from the Opera browser. Unfortunately, the
file still has a length of 7 and the text is the same: <head>

> It would be nice to have feedback from the community at large if this is
> just an isolated case or if everyone using MS Outlook has problems with
> this.
> 
> I had a discussion over this with Ralph Dorr who experienced the same
> problem. I had no problems receiving his email attachments but he could
> not read the attachments from SQL-Ledger nor could he read attachments
> sent with pine. So, I concluded that this is not in the code but must be
> something with Outlook. Perhaps a wrong setting or perhaps MS is telling
> the whole world again you better conform to their standards. Wouldn't be
> the first time.
> 
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