Zope large PDF question

David Currie davec999 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Apr 10 07:45:06 EDT 2003


Thanks to everyone for the replies.  I fired off the question and then
promptly got sidetracked on other stuff, which is why I haven't
replied before. :)

Kyler Laird <Kyler at news.Lairds.org> wrote in message news:<oqh8m-ldq.ln1 at news.lairds.org>...
> Zope has problems dealing with byteranges the way that
> Acrobat Reader specifies them for "large" files.  I 
> reported this a long time ago, but haven't followed it
> lately.  (I just use my own patch to disable it.)  
> 
> As I recall, Reader sends a request for pieces of a
> large file
> 	1-500, 1001-1500, 501-1000
> and Zope decides to be efficient and join all of the
> contiguous regions.  Unfortunately, that defeats the
> purpose of requesting the ranges *and* breaks Reader.

I see.  Is there any chance of explaining how to disable this
behaviour, or even better, of sharing the patch? ;)

Cheers.

Dave




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