Download and save .doc file

Andre Garzia soapdog at mac.com
Mon Dec 12 16:54:17 EST 2005


might be the case of using file:// instead of binfile://  PDF and DOC  
will have trouble if written as text...

Cheers
andre
On Dec 12, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

>> I have successfully downloaded and saved  .jpg, .gif and .htm files
>> but I have only partial success on .doc, and .pdf files.
>>
>> How do you download and save .doc and .pdf files?
>>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> There shouldn't be any difference. .htm files are just text but all
> the other file types you mention are binary files and should download
> fine so long as you remember to save them as binfiles, not just as
> files.
>
> I see you are on a Mac, so before saving, set the fileType to empty.
> That causes the Finder to work out what sort of file it is based on
> the extension.
>
> When you say it only partially works, but are the problems you
> encounter? You do know that Rev won't be able to open those file
> types?
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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