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hzy916
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Upload pdf(using swift sdk) is damaged when downloading from dropbox

I am following the instructions on https://github.com/dropbox/SwiftyDropbox#download-style-request and I successfully upload my pdf to dropbox. However the uploaded pdf cannot be previewed and when ...
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chirstius
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8 years ago

Hello hzy916,

 

I think the issue here is that you're trying to encode the PDF file as if it were text data and not binary data.

 

Try creating a URL to the local file path and updating your request to point the 'input' parameter directly to that URL.

 

See if that works as expected.

 

-Chuck

 

 

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