Hello everybody.
I'm trying to encode PDF file to base64 coding, but when I try to decode it back, so the result is not the same as original file. I tried to do it by this article (and
some other, but this was main), but this process changes non-printable characters. For example, the first line of original PDF file looks like this: (In this line below are normal dots instead of non-printable characters for cr lf, because I was not able to
put it here with them)
%PDF-1.4..%âaIÓ..31 0 obj..<<../Type/Annot/Border [0 0 0]/H/I/Subtype/Link/
but these cr lf characters are not in my result file.
By using second way:
$A = Get-Content $OriginalPath -Encoding 'default'
#Also tried with different encodings
$B =[Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($A))
$bytes = [System.Convert]::FromBase64String($B)
[IO.File]::WriteAllBytes($ResultPath, $bytes)
my result has dots between all characeters. (and these dots represent spaces)
% P.D.F.-.1...4. .%.â.a.I.Ó. .3.1. .0. .o.b.j. .<.<. ./ .T.y.p.e./.A.n.n.o.t
Does anybody know, how to solve this? I appreciate every advice.
Thank you. Daniel.
