A thread for experimenting with attachments

[William]

Now that the forum allows attachments I thought that a thread for experimenting with attachments would be a good idea.

I noticed that Bhikkhu Pesala suggested in the viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2483 to use a png file so that is what I have done.

Here is my transcript.

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Tuesday 18 November 2008

3:31 pm

Try to make an attachment for a thread in the High-Logic forum.

Start WordPad.

Use the Quest text font at 72 point using blue.

Key the following text, using Alt 64262 to produce an st ligature and Alt 59143 to produce a ct ligature, (the code here used for the ct ligature being a Private Use Area code used in the Quest text font and not a standard for a ct ligature, though people may use the code when making a font if they so choose).

An astrolabe actually!

Use Print Screen and paste into Microsoft Paint.

Copy a section from the middle onto the clipboard.

Close Paint.

Start Paint.

Paste from the clipboard.

Save as a png file.

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Now try to upload the file to the forum.

William Overington

18 November 2008

An attachment using Quest text

astrolabeactually.png (8.07 KiB) Viewed 8638 times

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

OK Let's try SVG and see if that works.

The extension SVG is not allowed.

Let's try 7-Zip

Tracker Post in IE7.7z

(10.05 KiB) Downloaded 505 times

OK

PDF: The extension pdf is not allowed.

WMF: The extension wmf is not allowed.

HTML: The extension html is not allowed.
The upload was rejected because the uploaded file was identified as a possible attack vector.

APNG:

basketball1.png (64.8 KiB) Viewed 8630 times

OK

TXT: The extension text is not allowed. (Surprising).

Animated GIF:

BowingBhikkhu.gif (12.96 KiB) Viewed 8628 times

OK

[William]

Well, how about a font?

Hmm, I tried to add POETRY.TTF with the following message.

Poetry font version 0.241

The system replied with the following, in maroon lettering!

The extension ttf is not allowed.

William Overington

18 November 2008

[William]

Following Erwin's post in the viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2483 thread at 18:49, probably just after my experiment, I will try again!

At 19:33 the message displayed is as follows.

The extension ttf is not allowed.

William

[Erwin Denissen]

All popular font file extensions should now be allowed.

[William]

Thank you.

The font is attached.

POETRY.TTF

Poetry font version 0.241

(55.59 KiB) Downloaded 504 times

William Overington

19 November 2008

[William]

Thank you.

thankyou.pdf

Thank you

(3.91 KiB) Downloaded 518 times

William Overington

19 November 2008

[William]

The attachment is a pdf slideshow and it runs in full-screen mode if allowed to do so.

Adobe Reader may well mention that some such publications request personal information.

This publication is one which I produced earlier this morning specifically to add to this forum thread. This pdf slideshow simply cycles through four page displays and is intended primarily to test what happens when a pdf slideshow is viewed direct from a forum page.

slideshow.pdf

(22.36 KiB) Downloaded 513 times

William Overington

20 November 2008