Wrong PDF conversion.

[former_member588188]

problem.pngHello,

I have a program in which we upload a file in a document number. Once we process this document, there is a new posted document number.

When I want to see the attached document in FB03 in attachment file. The document is opened in html which this format.

The program was working fine but after a patching it is showing those junk characters. I think it is due to any SAP note that I should implement. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot

[vipinsaraika]

Can u share the code

[former_member588188]

Hello,

I think it is a standard issue. I am checking the custom programs and they mainly go to database tables. The programs were working perfectly in the past. So I think it is more related to an SAP note.

[vipinsaraika]

check transaction OAAD it might help u

[Sandra_Rossi]

Why is it "opened in html"??? If the file has a PDF extension, it should first be displayed in your PDF viewer. What about other documents created before the error occurred?

My 2 cents: such a big horrible issue is not due to a SAP note, but to erroneous coding and to special case occurring.

[former_member588188]

I attach the document in fb02, then I execute a custom program that will add the info in an IDOC. The program posts a new document and when I enter in this new document, there are 3 documents, 2 of them are fine but the attached one has this strange junk characters.

Before the patching, the program was working perfectly. After this patch, it is working very bad.

[Sandra_Rossi]

Are the old correct PDF "opened in html" or in another application?

[former_member588188]

Hello,

The program contains an outbound idoc which is containing in one segment the attached file. Then the inbound idoc is having a path but I do not see the attached file. In FB02 when you add an attachment to a document number and you click on it, it is opening an html with the file. The same when I go with the new posted document but when I open the file it is getting the junk characters.

I do not know if I should create a segment in the inbound idoc which will contain the data.

[Sandra_Rossi]

OK. It's all custom IDoc solution there, no idea what is this path, what is this segment made of. I'm blind, please guide me (and any people viewing the question).

[raymond_giuseppi]

Can you paste the first displayed characters of your pdf (does it start with '%PDF')

[former_member588188]

Hi Raymond,

yes it starts with %PDF

%PDF-1.7 %âãÏÓ 7 0 obj <>stream

[Sandra_Rossi]

Could you reproduce the case with a dummy PDF file with no private information, and attach here both this PDF file and copy/paste the junk characters please. Thank you.

By the way, in your title, you are talking about "conversion", don't you mean "display" or do you really mean there is a kind of conversion somewhere, what is it then? (I don't call transferring, whatever the means, attaching and displaying the PDF a "conversion")

[former_member588188]

Hello Sandra,

It happens when I attach any PDF document. It is not that I was uploading an important document. Anyway I am thinking it is probably related to Archivelink. The outbound IDOC is sending the document with name and type of document, i.e. PDF. However, the inbound IDOC is via link. I am checking one user exit ZXEDFF14.

The name of the tittle, well at the beginning I called it conversion because I see those junk characters.

I am going to check today if it is something of archiving and not ABAP.

[Sandra_Rossi]

Thanks. By the way, in case it's due to the type in ArchiveLink, then maybe you see %PDF-1.7 etc. in your browser because the HTTP request header was not sent "Content-Type: application/pdf" (that you can see via Developer Tools/F12), probably it's more something like "Content-Type: text/plain".

NB: about what I previously asked, you can try with a tiny PDF like this one: https://www.tagg.org/pdftest.pdf