[imp] Composition and PDF attachments

[Simon Brereton]

On Nov 30, 2011 5:51 PM, "cjdl01" <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com> wrote:
>
>
> Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:
>
>> On 30 November 2011 17:28, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm using Imp 5.0.15 with Horde 4.0.12.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am a linux guy, so I do 99% of my work on linux boxes.  As part of
my
>>>>>> work, I send a lot of invoices out to customers in pdf format.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am using Mozilla firefox 7.0.1, and Adobe Reader 9.4.2 with the
>>>>>> firefox plugin on a gentoo box current as of yesterday.  It works
fine
>>>>>> normally, but for some reason, when attaching a PDF to an email and
clicking
>>>>>> on the link (name of the attachment) to verify the document, it
always opens
>>>>>> up a blank, white window.  There is a very long, ugly URL in the
address bar
>>>>>> of that window (probably going to a hashed temp file), but nothing
renders.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clicking the attachment name link does not even offer me to download
or
>>>>>> open in another program, it just opens that blank window.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is going to slow my workflow down something fierce.  Is there
>>>>>> anything I can do to fix this?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I can verify that this works fine for me.  There was a bug related to
>>>>> this, but it was fixed for 5.0.15.
>>>>>
>>>>> commit e08081438cb1a09638897cabd1e46fb3e1120e59
>>>>> Author: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
>>>>> Date:   Mon Oct 31 22:43:50 2011 -0600
>>>>>
>>>>>   Fix intermittent attachment loss when composing messages.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Fixed by implementing Serializable for IMP_Compose.
>>>>>
>>>>>   In the server access when attaching a file, the Horde_Mime_Part
>>>>> contains
>>>>>   the data of the attachment, stored in a stream.  When saving the
>>>>>   IMP_Compose object to the session, this part was being serialized
with
>>>>>   the entire contents of the data into the part.  Not good for session
>>>>>   sizes, and this data was periodically being lost.  We already have
the
>>>>>   attachment data stored (either in VFS or filesystem), so we don't
need
>>>>>   this data to be stored in the MIME Part - scrub it before
serializing.
>>>>>
>>>>>   For the record, the way to reproduce:
>>>>>
>>>>>   1. Use dynamic view
>>>>>   2. Open compose screen
>>>>>   3. Attach a file
>>>>>   4. Insert at least one character in body (to trigger auto-save
draft)
>>>>>   5. Wait for an auto-save draft
>>>>>   6. Try to view contents of attachment - error will be thrown.
>>>>>
>>>>> michael
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It looks like firefox 8 just hit portage today, so I installed that,
and
>>>> re-tested.  It is still doing the same thing.  I logged into a windows
box
>>>> with FF8, and it works as expected.  So it seems to be related just to
linux
>>>> FF.  Are you using a Linux Desktop with FF8, Michael?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think that this is necessarily a horde bug (it probably has
more
>>>> to do with the linux port of FF), but if there is anything I can do to
get
>>>> this working it would be of great help.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Right now I am using FF9 on Win7.
>>>
>>> But the PDF plugin is known to be wonky at times on all platforms, at
least
>>> for me.  I can load a PDF and nothing will happen - then I hit refresh
and
>>> it will instantly load.  That's sort of what your issue feels like.
>>
>>
>>
>> Unless I'm missing something the OP is on 4.0.12 and Michael stated
>> this was fixed in 4.0.15.  Perhaps a Horde/IMP upgraded is necessary
>> before continuing?
>>
>> Simon
>
>
> Hi simon,
>
> He said: "...but it was fixed for 5.0.15", which refers to Imp, which is
most current.  I'm current on all horde apps as of today.  I don't think
this bug is the same thing I'm viewing anyway, since it seems to apply only
to Linux FF/Acroread.
>
> I have tried every setting regarding pdfs on firefox that I can think of,
tried switching to okular, tried setting it to open PDF files with the
acroread program (not the plugin), I even set it to "Save File"... nothing
works. I get that blank screen every time.
>
> There is something very different about that link.  Every other pdf on
the web works (an any of the configs I mentioned), but not this horde link.
 There is something different going on with it, I cannot even right click
it and choose "save link location" like a normal link.

Sorry.  Saw that too late.

Have you tried cute-pdf plugin?

Simon