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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>You know those theoretical cases where the right combination
of characters in variable data might break something. We think we’ve
run into one.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We have an itl page that makes use of [try], but instead of
containing HTML/ITL data, it contains PDF data. The PDF data is the
result of variable form data merged into a PDF form. It turns out, that
when a certain string is merged into a certain field, the PDF is becoming
corrupted. A contiguous series of bytes are being removed from the
output.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>After a lot of trial and error, we’ve narrowed it down
to Vend::Interpolate::try’s call to interpolate_html. If I replace <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>$out = interpolate_html($body);<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>With <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>$out = $body;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The file doesn’t get corrupted. I’m
guessing that interpolate_html is encountering something it recognizes and is doing
something (though, the output is only missing data, it doesn’t have any
extra information in it).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Has anyone encountered this? I haven’t dug into
interpolate_html to figure out it’s purpose. And the interpolate
flag on try isn’t making a difference.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=name1><b><font size=2 color=gray face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ray Wadkins </span></font></b><span style='font-weight:
normal'>| Senior Web Developer, Customer Facing Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=company1><b><font size=2 color=gray face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Michael C. Fina<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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