Missing or corrupt PDF Attachments from Outook

My company uses a software package to auto create customer invoices as PDF documents which it then attaches these to a Plain Text email within Outlook 2003 which are then sent out to our customers email addresses.
The server running this program is using Win Server 2003 SP2 and Office 2003 Outlook to create & send the email.
Some customers see the PDF attachment ok, i.e those using Outlook, others using Hotmail, AOL, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird are all experiencing problems like missing attachments - Outllook Express / Thunderbird, Corrupt Files - Hotmail /AOL.
Is this to do with Internet Settings in Mail Format of Outlook, this is currently set as Plain Text without UUENCODE and HTML in pictures is checked.
Can anyone help?
John.

Hey John,
You may want to look into how your application is building the PDF. I had a very similar issue with almost the exact scenario you are having. Do some searching around PDF and "dot stuffing". The problem I had related to where the binary stream of the PDF began, there were extra dots (.) inserted causing the data to be invalid when the client attempted to read the encoding.
I believe it was a bug in the VB .net object itself (the code was fine) , I cant recall the version, perhaps v2 ??
-Dan

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