Corrupt PDFs from GetURLasContainer

[the Otter]

We have a script that downloads PDFs from our corporate web site and saves them to our internal server. (Long story; suffice to say it’s a good thing.) We use ScriptMaster’s GetURLasContainer to copy the PDF to a container field, then use FileMaker 11’s own Export Field Contents to save the file to an appropriate path. Unfortunately, we’re having an issue where the PDFs being downloaded to the container are corrupt. When we try to open them, we get the following error message:

 

The file [insert file name] could not be opened.

It may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize.

 

—or—

 

Acrobat could not open [insert file name] because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn’t correctly decoded).

 

To create an Adobe PDF document, go to the source application. Then print the document to Adobe PDF.

 

I suspect the error is somehow related to our recent upgrade from ScriptMaster 3.34 to 4.206, but we’d really hate to go back due to a plugin conflict we’re no longer having. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

 

Thank you! 

[john renfrew]

test it with a known pdf first??

I just did with

 

https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/docs/13/en/fm13_sql_reference.pdf

 

 

works as expected.. with 4.206

 

test your served file from inside the 360works examples file??

download it manually and import into your container?

[the Otter]

In case anyone happens along with the same problem, we finally fixed this by moving to BaseElements and using BE_GetURL instead.