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Rare trouble with pap.pdf files [Beitrag #3107]

Sa, 07 Februar 2009 20:27

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I have large numbers of pap.pdf hybrid files that I am constantly adding to over time. I use DevonThink Pro to keep track of them all and they reside in the DT database. Rarely, I will go to open a .pap.pdf file and it will give me an error message like this:

"Ataxin2.paf.pdf" is a plain PDF file. Papyrus can only open PAP-PDF hybrids that were created by Papyrus. Importing plain PDF documents is planned for a future version of Papyrus.

Well it WAS a .pap.pdf the last time I opened it. Confused

At this point I'm stuck trying to recover the text using another program and I always end up having to reformat all the text. By nature it is highly formatted text, lots of columns, tables, pictures etc. It takes forever.

Anyway,

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Will the soon to be released in English version of Papyrus be able to import plain pdf files, which would at least make it far easier to fix if the problem lies outside of Papyrus.

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Re: Rare trouble with pap.pdf files [Beitrag #3108 ist eine Antwort auf Beitrag #3107]

Sa, 07 Februar 2009 22:51

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I had no experience with this, but the scenario is of interest for me, so after reading your mail I saved a file as .pap.pdf, imported it in Devonthink (there being recognized and treated as pdf), then dragged the file from the Devonthink database onto Papyrus again and it opened there as it should. So may be the version of Papyrus makes a difference.

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Re: Rare trouble with pap.pdf files [Beitrag #8000 ist eine Antwort auf Beitrag #3107]

Sa, 22 Januar 2011 10:50

chrisgl
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I use the hybrid files a lot and have not run into this problem

I presume that a PDF file allows a section of the file to be a binary 'blob' of data that the PDF reader doesn't bother with - a bit like the WAV sound file format which allows extra, non-sound information to be saved in the file.

Now I don't use DevonThink - hadn't heard of it in fact - but I see that it allows you to "Annotate PDF documents using standard PDF annotations."

So I wonder if the program has added something to the file, wittingly or not, and on saving it has stripped the Papyrus 'blob' because, perhaps it doesn't know of the 'blob' feature.

Obviously this all hinges on you, the user, saving the file, a think that normally requires positive user action to do. Maybe there's a way that DevonThink can appear to make a change even tho' you haven't actually done anything. Most of the Microsoft Office programs are "capable" of loading a file and asking you to save changes in this way.

Anyway, that's my Tuppence worth. It'd be so much easier if PAP was the standard format for file distribution!

chris Smile

(a very occasional visitor but determined Papyrus user)

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