Unable to embed document

#26856

Hi there,

I am trying to embed a document within generated PDF file but the only thing I am getting is an icon but there is no option to click on the icon and open embedded document. I have literally Copied-Pasted your code example like this:

data:base64,YSxiLGMsZCxlDQp2YWx1ZSAxLCB2YWx1ZSAyLCB2YWx1ZSAzLCB2YWx1ZSA0

What could I be doing wrong?
I can attach a full HTML but I see no option to attach a file.

Best regards
Marcus

#29364

Does the attachment appear in the side bar (“Attachments” tab on the left window side of Acroread)?

#29365

@PD4ML wrote:

Does the attachment appear in the side bar (“Attachments” tab on the left window side of Acroread)?

Hi there,
I had to rewrite the whole thing and that little icon is now appearing but it is still not working correctly.
If I am displaying contents of a text file and set description=”FileAttachment.txt” then I can open text file attachments by clicking a little icon in generated PDF, great. However, when I try to attach and open a Word Document I am getting the following error message:
“This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install…”.
When I update description=”Fileattachment.docx” then I can open Word documents only. This will not work of course as business users can attach any type of file so description=”FileAttachment.attachmenttype” must be dynamically generated to reflect attached file extension.

Is there a way of doing this please?

Thank you in advance.

#29366

Normally PD4ML extracts a file name from attachments URL. In your case an attachment body is passed as a base64-encoded stream of bytes with no file name hint – in such situation a description attribute with a file name is needed.

In the forthcoming v398fx3 we implemented an “auto-guess” of file extension by a mime type. If there is no description, it will extract a mime type from “data:” prefix.

For example:

[language=html:3vavs04u] data:text/plain;base64,YSxiLGMsZCxlDQp2YWx1ZSAxLCB2YWx1ZSAyLCB2YWx1ZSAzLCB2YWx1ZSA0 [/language:3vavs04u]

auto-names the attachment as “attachment.txt”

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