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Just to let you all know, I solved the problem! Yay!<br><br>
The Eudora 6 manual was indeed correct in its instructions to edit the
resource fork of the Eudora application. I found a freeware OS X
compatible resource editor, Rezilla (available at Sourceforge.net).
The EuOM resource, which governs MIME mappings for outgoing messages,
contained an mapping for Adobe Illustrator, which uses the
".ai" suffix. The mapping, however, was just to match the
file creator only, not creator and file type. Since Illustrator and
Acrobat are both Adobe products, they have the same file creator.
The mapping for PDF was on file type only, not file type and
creator. Either because the Illustrator mapping came before the PDF
mapping in the resource list, or Eudora's preference is for file creator
over type, Eudora mapped PDFs to Illustrator when sending.
Deleting the Illustrator mapping fixed the problem.<br><br>
I know, I know, I should have tried editing the resource first, before
crying out for help. I just thought that with OS X, resource forks
were a thing of the past. I have learned my lesson.<br><br>
Thanks to all who replied! You guys rock.<br><br>
C.<br><br>
At 09:09 AM 11/8/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Does anyone know how to change
the MIME mapping for Eudora 6.2.3 on OS X? The manual describes
using ResEdit to edit the resource fork, but that sounds strangely OS
9-ish; the included illustration in the manual is of a OS 9 window.
My postings in the Eudora forums gets looks but no replies.<br><br>
Anyway, the reason I ask is this. I have a user who sends lots of
PDF files back and forth with collaborators by email. Recently, his
collaborators began to complain that some of his PDFs, coming through as
email attachments, could not be opened. So the user came to me for
help.<br><br>
First off, Eudora was adding the ".ai" suffix to the file
name. So a file "Paper.PDF" was being decoded at the
recipicient's end as "Paper.PDF.ai". Remove the
".ai", and the file opened just fine. The files
<i>were</i> coming through OK. Oddly enough, this file name change
happened to SOME, not ALL, his PDF files sent. Eudora was sending
them all as AppleDouble (MIME) encoded documents, without the macintosh
information.<br><br>
His OS recognized PDFs as being Adobe Acrobat Reader documents. He
can double-click them, and they open up fine in Acrobat Reader. The
OS displays the proper icon with the files.<br><br>
I examined the file type and creator for the PDFs and found something
interesting. PDFs with the proper file type and creator were the
ones that Eudora added the ".ai" to. PDFs with improper
or missing file type and creator data went just fine. Probably
Eudora just encoded those missing-data files and sent as-is. The
solution seemed to be to find the MIME mappings for Eudora, and make a
change.<br><br>
Easier said than done. I deleted and recreated his settings.
I deleted .plist files from his Library. I did everything but
reinstall the application. Nothing worked.<br><br>
So I turn to you for help. Any ideas?<br><br>
C. <br><br>
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Department of Linguistics and Philosophy<br>
MIT<br>
32-D834<br>
617.259.4373<br>
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