[reportlab-users] ascii85

[Tim Roberts]

Uwe Hoffmann wrote:

>   the pdf interpreter in some (all ?) HP printers is not able to properly

>   interpret ascii85 encoded streams when confronted with

>   whitespace  between the two terminating characters ( ~> ) .

>   I have read the ascii85/pdf spec and think the current reportlab

>   behaviour is correct. Nevertheless i think the printers won't be

>   able to correctly work with such documents in the near future.

>

>   As a workaround i have removed the _wrap call .

>   


Are you saying there are HP printers that can interpret PDF files
directly?  Or are you just talking about sections of a PDF that get
passed through to the printer's Postscript interpreter verbatim?

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.