Thomas Neuburger Re: PDF files sent from Mac to PC
Jun 01, 2000; 10:39
Thomas Neuburger
Re: PDF files sent from Mac to PC
(Cross-posted...)
Excellent post, Dov. Great summary. Maybe you'd expand on your "ASCII dogmatism" comments for those who aren't as versed in this issue.
About filenames, I'd add that if you move files around via disks (floppy, zip, etc.), note that Macs when read PC disks, they see the underlying DOS filename -- at least the Macs I'm familiar with. The underlying filename of "MyGoodBook.PDF" may be MYGOOD~1.PDF. This is the name the Mac sees, unless the new OS's have changed that, and this will be the file's new name on the Mac.
Obviously this can be a serious challenge when files call files -- for example, when PDFs call other PDFs, and in Frame, when book files call chapter files. It's been my single biggest nightmare when working cross-platform.
If you do a lot of file exchange via disk, consider (ugh) sticking with 8.3 for filenames. It's the only workaround I know.
Tom Neuburger
Dov Isaacs wrote:
>A few more comments based on additional postings on this subject. > >... > >(2) File name lengths. Thank goodness we are past the days of >eight-dot-three name restrictions for Windows. There are so few >remaining Windows 3.x users that I believe that we are past the >point where such accommodations must be made. HOWEVER, Windows >users should be considerate of Mac users and restrict their >filenames to 31 characters, including suffix! > >...
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