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Hi, gang. Here’s the problem page:
Quick Reference Chart – ExpressionEngine Documentation
http://expressionengine.com/docs/quick_reference.html

The EE-documentation page “Quick Reference Chart” (with embedded GIF) does not display the intended image, and opening the image in its own browser window shows only the GIF’s code characters….
http://expressionengine.com/docs/images/ee_quick_reference.gif

Also, the linked “PDF version of this chart” brings up a page showing only the underlying code of the PDF. My suspicion would normally be that both the GIF and the PDF were generated by a Microsoft app. Just a hunch, usually justified. However, the PDF has an “Adobe Illustrator” creator tag. So maybe the PDF problem is a Macprogram-to-PCprogram problem or vice-versa. Or maybe there’s something strange about how your Web page links to or serves up the GIF and PDF? There’s no good reason for both a GIF and PDF to get scrambled, except maybe by an iffy FTP upload?

I’m using the current Adobe Reader 8 updated for Mac OSX as the default PDF viewer within Safari. It works fine on all other Web-served PDFs. Photoshop sniffs at but won’t open the “ee_quick_reference.pdf” file as text or anything else.

Searching for the PDF filename “ee_quick_reference.pdf” in your search function DOES find a single link to http://expressionengine.com/images/ee_quick_reference.pdf but clicking that produces a 404-FileNotFound error. Ouch.

If/when this gets fixed, PLEASE let us know what the poop was. I publish many PDFs and GIFs, and it helps to know where the landmines are.  :red:

I may be wrong, but I’m fairly confident that they were produced on non-Microsoft products, on OSX.  I’ll look into this, thank you for reporting it!

This actually had nothing to do with the image but rather with the code we are using to allow comments in our HTML-based docs.  It has been fixed.

Thanks, Lisa & Paul! Both the PDF and the GIF versions of the chart now display perfectly chez moi. And a very useful, handsome chart it is!  😊
Ooops. One remaining strangeness…. The expressionengine.com search function still finds and lists the PDF file “ee_quick_reference.pdf” but clicking on the displayed link in the search results produces the 404-FileNotFound error. I noticed that the search-result link is actually….
http://expressionengine.com/36db463cbab6d8c4f986ea60b613fd342de07748/
....instead of the “reality-based”....
http://expressionengine.com/docs_assets/images/ee_quick_reference.pdf
....so maybe it’s just a database thang.
Anyway, I’m memorizing the PDF chart for now. Thanks!

Thanks bmewhinney, that search is not supposed to search the User Guide, which I have fixed.

I was just going to post about this. The .gif seems to have disappeared again.

AS well as the pdf… Does anyone have the pdf available atm, so I can get it?

Herko

Odd, as this link works: http://expressionengine.com/docs_assets/images/ee_quick_reference.pdf

But the link to the pdf (http://expressionengine.com/docs/images/ee_quick_reference.pdf) and the image on the Quick Reference Chart page (http://expressionengine.com/docs/quick_reference.html) don’t work.

Herko

All fixed, sorry about that.