Re: Duplicating Delphi Saving of PDF Document with VB 2005

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cjs_atwork wrote:
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A department within our organization has been using DELPHI to save PDF
documents in SQL database, and for various reasons I have been unsuccessfully
trying to duplicate this functionality in VB 2005. It turns out that when
the document is stored using Delphi, there is a 2572 byte header before the
actual PDF file begins. The Header begins with "BDOC" and then a 01Hex
there is more data and then "Acrobat Document" appears (Hex is
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Each PDF seems to have a slightly different header (all of the same size
however).
So my question is, "What do I need to do to duplicate this functionality?".
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It seems that you'll first need to know the framework that is being
used by Delphi to 'envelope' the binary data (the pdf file). A google
search retrieves all sorts of BDOC's, many of them part of a ERP/SAP
specification and many other uses, which indicates that this is either
a custom format used by the programmmers the created your Delphi app or
a format that is used to envelope binary data as part of some framework
used by the app.

I have a feeling that this didn't help much, unfortunately.

Regards,

Branco.

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