Group: CiteULike-discussion - Forum Thread

Topic: Bug reports

"This file doesn't appear to be a PDF" when it *is* a proper PDF

I couldn't upload the pdf found at: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000087

I've successfully uploaded pdfs from PLoS Comp. Bio. before but this one is not accepted. The pdf in question looks fine on evince and acroread 8 and prints fine, which suggests that it is well-formed.

Thanks!

Posted by Borelli on 2008-06-17 16:41:02.

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Hmmm. How strange.

     $ file journal.pcbi.1000087.pdf 
     journal.pcbi.1000087.pdf: Minix filesystem, version 2

But:

     $ od -c journal.pcbi.1000087.pdf | head -2
     0000000   %   P   D   F   -   1   .   5  \r   % 342 343 317 323  \r  \n
     0000020   1       0       o   b   j   <   <   /   C   o   n   t   e   n

Our server (my MacOS laptop, too) doesn't think it's a PDF. Let me know which article it's the PDF for, and I'll upload it for you.

Posted by cjhall on 2008-06-17 19:12:50.

This corresponds to http://www.citeulike.org/user/Borelli/article/2869965 Thanks!

Posted by Borelli on 2008-06-18 08:04:51.

OK, done.

Posted by cjhall on 2008-06-18 10:24:30.

thank you!

Posted by Borelli on 2008-06-18 14:55:39.

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