Non-hex character in a hex string

My Illustrator file will not open in Illustrator and I get the "non-hex character in a hex string" window whenever I try to open it. It does open in Acrobat but nothing else. I can't even save it as a pdf file..
Is there any way I can get around that or fix it?

karam,
The first thing to try is to use File>Place in a new document and see how much, if anything, is saved this way.
The next thing to try is to repair the file code, which is more difficult. The basics are told in this TechNote, the actual recovery consists of changing/adding/deleting code.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50031.html

Similar Messages

Non-hex character in a hex string error message

Hi everyone,
I encountered n error message in Illustrator "Acrobat PDF File Format is having difficulties. Non-hex character in a hex string." when trying to open a particular file.
File was originally created on a Windows 7 PC, tried opening file on Mac OS 10.7.5, same Illustrator version 18. Also tried opening in PDF, Distiller, but didn't help.
Did tried to change Illustrator Preferences in both Windows and Mac, following the steps in the TecNote:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50031.html
When trying to open the file from the File > Open menu, with the keys held down, it did not open a blank file window, neither did it created a duplicate copy in the Finder where the file is located.
The file in question had about 15 artboards, a few embedded images, approx 2.6MB size.
Any suggestions/assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Hi Monika,
The file was .ai file, as mentioned earlier, was created in Illustrator ver 18.
Not emailed, stored in the folder, on the Windows PC, not a server. Last saved few days ago, tried to reopen the file from the same computer, but could no longer opened.
No, Illustrator did not crash, just the error message "Acrobat PDF File Format is having difficulties. Non-hex character in a hex string."

Non-hex character in hex string after upgrade to Yosemite

Hi,
When I try to open some of my files I get an error: "Acrobat PDF File Format is having difficulties. Non-hex character in a hex string". I could open the files before.
The only thing I've done since I opened the file last was to upgrade to Yosemite. The error occurs on both my Mac Pro (late 2013) and Mac Book Pro with Yosemite. Unfortunately, I have no access to a Mac with Mavericks and CS6 but I will try to fix one to verify that the file works there.
Affected files (Created in Illustrator CS6 on Mavericks):
services.ai
visual guidelines v.0.4.pdf
visual guidelines.ai
Tested steps:
Open previous versions of the same file from our repository
Update Illustrator CS6 to latest version
Download Illustrator CC
Tried to Place the file into another file (same error)
Tried to repair file Enable content recovery mode | Illustrator CS2-CS5

Hi svepdesigncenter,
How you are accessing those files from your repository?
There might be chances of getting files corrupted when transferring.
File may have been sent as ascii when it should have been sent as binary or vice versa.
In 99% of transfers it's ALWAYS safest to zip an AI or eps file before sending it anywhere.
Regards,
Sumit Singh

Replace hex character in a string with another hex character

Hi Guys,
Heres a problem scenario, hex character 92 looks very much like hex character 27 (apostrophe).
I need to write a program that can replace all hex character 92 to hex 27 in a string.
Being a novice on the regular expressions, I would appreciate if somebody can show
the exact syntax to to perform this replacement.
Many Thanks
-Anil

I don't think you need to use regex to do this:
String s = something();
char a = 0x27;
char b = 0x92;
s.replace(a,b);
And don't forget that since Strings are immutable you need:
s = s.replace(a,b);to do anything useful.

Non-hex character in hex string

I'm getting this messsage when I try to open an Illustrator file:
"Acrobat PDF file format is having difficulties. Non-hex character in a string."
I', using illustrator CS6 and I need my file opened..!

Nobody can know without seeing the file and having more info about your system. Does the file open in Acroibat/ Adobe Reader for instance?
Mylenium

Strip Hex Character

I want to strip the character '0D15' from a String before inserting into a database.
The character seems to get through this line of code:
String strippedValue = unstrippedValue.replace('\n', ' ');
I thought the hex value of 0D15 is a new line?

No, unicode is not the same as hex; the same character can be many different things in "hex" depending on the character encoding used. Unicode is only one character encoding, but it is the default in Java.
You should ask the AS/400 programmer how he gets a character from 0D15, obviously it's not by using unicode.
What did you say about line breaks?

Non-Alphanumeric Character in a String

I understand if we have a non-alphanumeric character in a String, we have to put a backward slash in front of that character. For example, we have to put a backward slach in front of a "backward slash". Eg. we do \\ to put a backward slash in a String.
What about a dot (.) or a dash (-)? Do we have to do the same thing?

No, it's only for control characters like "newline", characters with special meaning in strings i.e. " and \ and any character that can't be represented in the character encoding of your java source file.

Spliting a string based on Non Printable character

Hi,
i have a requirement where i have to split a String based in non printable character " MYU(ascii: 230);
es: ""This is to test æ raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa æ AAA010224544 æ 7118288888 æ
æ is a not printable character and its ascci is 230..
iam getting that string from form how to split it in Java..
Any suggestions...?

One of many ways
    String initString = "This is to test æ raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa æ AAA010224544 æ 7118288888 æ";
    String[] tokens = initString.split(String.valueOf((char)230));
    for (String string : tokens)
      System.out.println(string.trim());
    }

Hex character into columns

Hi, I am trying to go from ascii characters to Hex. It works fine. but I need my hex numbers to show in 4 columns ( as show on this text file, how can I do that?
Attachments:
ascii to hex.vi ‏7 KB
Hex.txt ‏1 KB

Darin.K wrote:
For the non-Regex-impaired and those who dislike padding with zeros.
Regular expressions are much more clear after they have been compiled to machine code.
Spoiler (Highlight to read)
Just kidding. They only look confusing if you are not familiar with them. They really do make sense after you learn them and are very powerful!
Just kidding. They only look confusing if you are not familiar with them. They really do make sense after you learn them and are very powerful!
=====================
LabVIEW 2012

Reading a non-english character

Hi, I have a trouble with reading a non-english character from a html page.
I'm taking the word from the html page, and compare it with itself,
like this
string.equals("BİTTİ")
but it returns false.
is it possible to correct this?

specify an encoding for your inputstream reader:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("infilename"), "8859_1")); for example

ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected

hi ,
This was the code which shows the sales rep invoice amount and collected amount but while running report thru concurrent program its showing the following error:
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
WHERE TO_CHAR ( TO_DATE ( PS.GL_DATE , 'DD/MON/YY' ) , 'MON-YYYY' ) BETWEEN TO_CHAR ( TO_DATE ( : ==> P_todate , 'YYYY/MM/DD' ) , 'MON-YYYY' ) AND TO_CHAR ( TO_DATE ( : P_todate , 'YYYY/MM/DD' ) , 'MON-YYYY' ) AND ps.customer_id = cust.custome
The Actual Code was this
SELECT SUBSTR(SALES.name,1,50) salesrep_name_inv,
--ps.CLASS,
SUM(ABS(ps.acctd_amount_due_remaining)) acctd_amt,
SUM(ABS(ps.amount_due_remaining)) amt_due_remaining_inv,
SUM(ABS(ps.amount_adjusted)) amount_adjusted_inv,
SUM(ABS(ps.amount_applied)) amount_applied_inv,
SUM(ABS(ps.amount_credited)) amount_credited_inv,
SALES.salesrep_id,
NULL "REMARKS"
-- ps.gl_date gl_date_inv,
FROM ra_cust_trx_types ctt,
ra_customers cust,
ar_payment_schedules ps,
ra_salesreps SALES,
ra_site_uses site,
ra_addresses addr,
ra_cust_trx_line_gl_dist gld,
gl_code_combinations c,
ra_customer_trx ct
WHERE TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(PS.GL_DATE,'DD/MON/YY'),'MON-YYYY')
BETWEEN TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(:P_todate,'YYYY/MM/DD'),'MON-YYYY') AND TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(:P_todate,'YYYY/MM/DD'),'MON-YYYY')
AND ps.customer_id = cust.customer_id
AND ps.customer_trx_id = ct.customer_trx_id
AND ps.cust_trx_type_id = ctt.cust_trx_type_id
AND NVL(ct.primary_salesrep_id, -3) = SALES.salesrep_id
AND ps.customer_site_use_id+0 = site.site_use_id(+)
AND site.address_id = addr.address_id(+)
AND TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(PS.GL_DATE_CLOSED,'DD/MON/YY'),'MON-YYYY')
BETWEEN TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(:P_todate,'YYYY/MM/DD'),'MON-YYYY') AND TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(:P_todate,'YYYY/MM/DD'),'MON-YYYY')
--AND ps.gl_date_closed > TO_DATE(:P_todate,'MON-YYYY')
AND ct.customer_trx_id = gld.customer_trx_id
AND gld.account_class = 'REC'
AND gld.latest_rec_flag = 'Y'
AND gld.code_combination_id = c.code_combination_id
AND sales.salesrep_id is not null and sales.name is not null
-- and ps.payment_schedule_id+0 < 9999
-- AND SALES.salesrep_id ='1001'
GROUP BY SALES.name,
--ps.CLASS,
SALES.salesrep_id

So to_date function accepts a string as input and returns a date. When a date is input instead, it is implicity converted to the required type of the function paremeter, which is a string, so that to_date can convert it back to a date again.
If you are lucky with the implicit conversion, you get the same date back, if you are not you might get a different date or an error.
From your query it appears that this conversion from a date, to a string, to a date, and then back to a string using to_char this time, is being done to remove the time or day part of the date. The actual range comparison is being done on strings rather than dates, which is dangerous as strings sort differently than dates.
In this example if I sort by date, Jan 01 comes between Dec 00 and Feb 01 as you would expect.
SQL> select * from t order by d;
D
12-01-2000
01-01-2001
02-01-2001When converted to strings, Feb 01 comes between Dec 00 and Jan 01, which is probably not the desired result
SQL> select * from t order by to_char(d,'DD-MON-YY');
D
12-01-2000
02-01-2001
01-01-2001If you want to remove time and day parts of dates you should use the trunc function
trunc(d) removes the time, trunc(d,'mm') will remove the days to start of month.
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions201.htm#i79761

Getting a request in a non English character

Hi ,
In an attempt to solve a problem of getting a request in a non English character , i use the code , taken from O'Reilly's "Java Servlet programing" First edition:
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet {
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
                                                                           throws ServletException, IOException {
          try {
                                                  //set encoding of request and responce
     req.setCharacterEncoding("Cp1255"); //for hebrew windows
     res.setCharacterEncoding("Cp1255");
     res.setContentType("Text/html; Cp1255");
     String value = req.getParameter("param");
                                                  // Now convert it from an array of bytes to an array of characters.
     // Here we bother to read only the first line.
                                                  BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
     new InputStreamReader(new StringBufferInputStream(value), "Cp1255"));
                                                  String valueInUnicode = reader.readLine();
          }catch (Exception e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
this works fine , the only problem is that StringBufferInputStream is deprecated .
is there any other alternative for that ?
Thanks in advance
Yair

Hi Again ..
To get to the root of things , here is a servlet test and an http client test which demonstrates using the above patch and not using it :
The servlet :
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.StringBufferInputStream;
public class Hebrew2test extends HttpServlet {
     public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
     throws ServletException, IOException {
          request.setCharacterEncoding("Cp1255");
          response.setCharacterEncoding("Cp1255");
          response.setContentType("Text/html; Cp1255");
          PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
          String name = request.getParameter("name");
          //print without any patch
          out.println(name);
          //a try with patch 1 DEPRECATED
          out.println("patch 1:");
          BufferedReader reader =
          new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new StringBufferInputStream(name), "cp1255"));
          String patch_name = reader.readLine();
          out.println(patch_name);
          //a try with patch 2 which doesn't work
          out.println("patch 2:");
          String valueInUnicode = new String(name.getBytes("Cp1255"), "UTF8");
          out.println(valueInUnicode);
and now for a test client :
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class HttpClient_cp1255 {
private static void printUsage() {
System.out.println("usage: java HttpClient host port");
public static void main(String[] args) {
if (args.length < 2) {
printUsage();
return;
// Host is the first parameter, port is the second
String host = args[0];
int port;
try {
port = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
catch (NumberFormatException e) {
printUsage();
return;
try {
// Open a socket to the server
Socket s = new Socket(host, port);
// Start a thread to send reuest to the server
new Request_(s).start();
// Now print everything we receive from the socket
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream(),"cp1255"));
String line;
File f = new File("in.txt");
FileWriter out = new FileWriter(f);
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
out.write(line);
out.close();
     catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
class Request_ extends Thread {
Socket s;
public Request_( Socket s) {
this.s = s;
setPriority(MIN_PRIORITY); // socket reads should have a higher priority
// Wish I could use a select() !
setDaemon(true); // let the app die even when this thread is running
public void run() {
try {
                    OutputStreamWriter server = new OutputStreamWriter(s.getOutputStream(),"cp1255");
                    //String query= "GET /userprofiles/hebrew2test?name=yair"; //yair in Englisg ..
                    String query= "GET /userprofiles/hebrew2test?name=\u05d9\u05d0\u05d9\u05e8"; //yair in hebrew - in unicode
               System.out.println("Connected... your HTTP request is sent");
                    System.out.println("------------------------------------------");
                    server.write(query);
                    server.write("\r\n"); // HTTP lines end with \r\n
                    server.flush();
                    System.out.println(server.getEncoding());
     server =      new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("out.txt"),"cp1255");
                    server.write(query);
                    server.flush();
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();

Does querybuilder support non-english character?

I want to make query using querybuilder with non-english character (Chinese)?
I tried with http://localhost:4502/libs/cq/search/content/querydebug.html but it is not working.
below is my query string:
property=contenttext
property.value=你好嗎
I have converted the chinese character (你好嗎)to unicode.
Can anyone help me?

That's a bug in the debugger UI. But it's easy to fix:
in crxde lite, overlay /libs/cq/search/components/querydebug/querydebug.jsp by copying it to /apps/cq/search/components/querydebug/querydebug.jsp
open /apps/cq/search/components/querydebug/querydebug.jsp
find the line "props.load(new ByteArrayInputStream(queryParam.getBytes("ISO-8859-1")));"
and replace with "props.load(new StringReader(queryParam));"
Will be fixed in 5.6.1.

Removing non-alpha-numeric characters from a string

How can I remove all non-alpha-numeric characters from a string? (i.e. only alpha-numerics should remain in the string).

Or even without a loop ?
Extract from the help for the Search and Replace String function :
Right-click the Search and Replace String function and select Regular Expression from the shortcut menu to configure the function for advanced regular expression searches and partial match substitution in the replacement string.
Extract from the for the advanced search options :
[a-zA-Z0-9] matches any lowercase or uppercase letter or any digit. You also can use a character class to match any character not in a given set by adding a caret (^) to the beginning of the class. For example [^a-zA-Z0-9] matches any character that is not a lowercase or uppercase letter and also not a digit.
Message Edité par JB le 05-06-2008 01:49 PM
Attachments:
Example_VI_BD4.png ‏2 KB

Sqlldr with error: non-numeric character was found when numeric number

Hi,
I have been struggling with this problem for long, can't get to anywhere.
I am trying to use sqlldr to load a CSV file into table, the table looks like this :
AD_ID NUMBER(38)
CNTCT_ID VARCHAR2(60)
AD_FILE_NAME VARCHAR2(80)
AD_TITLE VARCHAR2(300)
AGCY_APRVL_DATE DATE
CORE_APRVL_DATE DATE
ENTR_CMNT CLOB
IC_APRVL_DATE DATE
PURP_TEXT CLOB
RVW_BRD_APRVL_DATE DATE
ACTIVE_FLAG VARCHAR2(1)
.......................................more fields
The control file looks like this:
LOAD DATA
INFILE "C:\ORACLE_IRTMB\IRPADS\SQL_DATA\ADS_T.CSV"
BADFILE "C:\ORACLE_IRTMB\IRPADS\ADS_T.BAD"
DISCARDFILE "C:\ORACLE_IRTMB\IRPADS\ADS_T.DSC"
truncate INTO TABLE ADS_T
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' TRAILING NULLCOLS
     AD_ID INTEGER ,
     CNTCT_ID char ,
     AD_FILE_NAME char ,
     AD_TITLE char nullif (AD_TITLE=BLANKS) ,
     AGCY_APRVL_DATE DATE "MM/DD/YYYY" nullif (AGCY_APRVL_DATE=BLANKS) ,
     CORE_APRVL_DATE DATE "MM/DD/YYYY" ,
     ENTR_CMNT CHAR(7000) nullif (ENTR_CMNT=BLANKS) ,
PURP_TEXT CHAR(7000) nullif (ENTR_CMNT=BLANKS) ,
     RVW_BRD_APRVL_DATE DATE "MM/DD/YYYY" ,
     ACTIVE_FLAG char ,
     ....more fields
The Data file looks like this:
10132,simpsonl,PMSDHHStemplate.pdf,"Depression, Irritability, Mood Swings Sound Familiar?",1/13/2003,11/14/2002,,1/13/2003,"The NIMH is conducting research on premenstrual
10133,jolkovsl,10133ClozapineDHHS ver 0.pdf,Mood Swings? Unpredictable Moods? Are These Moods hard to Treat?,1/28/2003,11/14/2002,,1/28/2003,"The NIMH is conducting a study to test the efficacy of ...
--- and log file looks like this:
Record 5: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column RVW_BRD_APRVL_DATE.
second enclosure string not present
Record 7: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column RVW_BRD_APRVL_DATE.
second enclosure string not present
Record 9: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column RVW_BRD_APRVL_DATE.
second enclosure string not present
Record 2: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column AGCY_APRVL_DATE.
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
Record 4: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column AGCY_APRVL_DATE.
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
Record 6: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column AGCY_APRVL_DATE.
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
IF I use to_date in control file:
LOAD DATA
INFILE "C:\ORACLE_IRTMB\IRPADS\SQL_DATA\ADS_T.CSV"
BADFILE "C:\ORACLE_IRTMB\IRPADS\ADS_T.BAD"
DISCARDFILE "C:\ORACLE_IRTMB\IRPADS\ADS_T.DSC"
truncate INTO TABLE ADS_T
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' TRAILING NULLCOLS
     AD_ID INTEGER ,
     CNTCT_ID char ,
     AD_FILE_NAME char ,
     AD_TITLE char nullif (AD_TITLE=BLANKS) ,
     AGCY_APRVL_DATE "to_date(:AGCY_APRVL_DATE,'MM/DD/YYYY')" ,
     CORE_APRVL_DATE DATE "MM/DD/YYYY" ,
     ENTR_CMNT CHAR(7000) nullif (ENTR_CMNT=BLANKS) ,
     IC_APRVL_DATE DATE "MM/DD/YYYY" ,
     PURP_TEXT CHAR(10000) nullif (PURP_TEXT=BLANKS) ,
     RVW_BRD_APRVL_DATE DATE "MM/DD/YYYY" ,
I got extracctly same error message as above...
If I use to_char in control file:
LOAD DATA
INFILE "C:\ORACLE_IRTMB\IRPADS\SQL_DATA\ADS_T.CSV"
BADFILE "C:\ORACLE_IRTMB\IRPADS\ADS_T.BAD"
DISCARDFILE "C:\ORACLE_IRTMB\IRPADS\ADS_T.DSC"
truncate INTO TABLE ADS_T
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' TRAILING NULLCOLS
     AD_ID INTEGER ,
     CNTCT_ID char ,
     AD_FILE_NAME char ,
     AD_TITLE char nullif (AD_TITLE=BLANKS) ,
     AGCY_APRVL_DATE "to_char(:AGCY_APRVL_DATE,'MMDDYYYY')" ,
Then it's said a not valid number
Record 2: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column AGCY_APRVL_DATE.
ORA-01722: invalid number
Record 4: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column AGCY_APRVL_DATE.
ORA-01722: invalid number
Record 6: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column AGCY_APRVL_DATE.
ORA-01722: invalid number
Record 8: Rejected - Error on table ADS_T, column AGCY_APRVL_DATE.
ORA-01722: invalid number
someone, please help me out here.
Thanks a lot.
Wei

hello
pls use to_date
If your session is set to default date format of DD-MON-YY, execute the following and you will receive the error message:
SQL> select to_date('20-JAN-2010', 'DD-MM-YYYY') from dual;
ERROR:
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
no rows selected
When you are converting a string to a date, you have specified that the date is being passed in DD-MM-YYYY format. But you have passed the date in DD-MON-YYYY format. As the month is expected as a number by oracle, but you have passed a character, oracle is unable to translate the string to a number.
Do one of the following:
SQL> select to_date('20-JAN-2010', 'DD-MON-YYYY') from dual
2 /
TO_DATE
20-JAN-2010
OR
SQL> select to_date('20-10-2010', 'DD-MM-YYYY') from dual
2 /
TO_DATE
20-JAN-2010
or you can use alter sessin set nls_date_format='.....................';
regards

Non-hex character in a hex string

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for