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Topic: Re: Binary Data (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) PDF Conferences, Msg: 100462
From: LeonardR
Date: 11/14/2003 03:49 AM
At 9:57 PM +1100 11/13/03, p-pdf-conferences Listmanager wrote:
>What is that small chunk of binary data at the top of a PDF (in the
>second line)?
>
A little piece of history...
It was added in PDF 1.1 to prevent older mainframes and email
systems from treating PDFs as text instead of binary and therefore
"munging" them.
Leonard
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