However, when used in the context of encoding an attachment, it seems to work fine.

To convert to a base64 encoding, use the Acrobat Net.streamEncode method: // Get a stream for the image attachment var inputStream = ('Smile.jpg') // Get a new stream with the image encoded as base64 var vEncodedStream = Net.streamEncode(inputStream, 'base64') // Get a string from the stream var sBase64 = util.stringFromStream(vEncodedStream) // assign the base64 encoded value to an image field sampleImage.rawValue = sBase64 We know there are issues with Net.streamEncode failing where content has null bytes. However, when your attachment is in a binary format, the standard way to include it in an XML file is to encode it as base64. If your attachment happens to be textual, then you can use util.stringFromStream to convert to a string value: var inputStream = ('MyNotes.txt') Notes.rawValue = util.stringFromStream(inputStream) The default encoding for binary attachments is a hex-encoding (each byte written as a 2 digit hex value). It returns a stream object with the contents of an attachment. The interesting method in our case is getDataObjectContents. Then are a set of methods for dealing with attachments: openDataObject, getDataObject, createDataObject, importDataObject, removeDataObject, getDataObjectContents, and setDataObjectContents. Right click HTTP Response with the application/octet-stream body Save Response Response Body. Currently, they are not opened as pdf, but I. Some scanners mail the scanned pdf file as an application/octet-stream with pdf extension. Take image attachments and use them to populate image fields Acrobat methods for attachments The acrobat document object has a property: dataObjects that returns an array of all the attachments in the current document. Take any attachments a user has added to the PDF and include it in a form submission or in a web service request. If you can do so, it opens up a couple of interesting possibilities.

The end goal is to copy a PDF attachments into XML data. So I’ve tried again and had a little more success this time. But then I saw a customer scenario that called for this capability, and then one of my regular commenters (Bruce) brought up the topic as well.

I wasn’t happy with the outcome at that time, and I was going to leave it. Some time ago I experimented with PDF attachments - trying to add them to my XML data. This blog entry has been re-published with updated information.

Convert octet-stream to pdf