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by dayle1011

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Hello all,
I have a MS Publisher file that I converted to a PDF using Adobe Acrobat. How can I send the file in an email with the contents automatically showing without sending it as an attachment, people hate opening up attachments. Basically I want the PDF information to be the body of the email.

Thanks for any help on this

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by robo_dev

PDF is a binary data format which cannot be interpreted by an email client.

HTML, html scripting, or plain text are the only data formats that email clients understand as the body of the email.

If you could include a binary PDF in the body of an email document, it would look something like:

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0000000016 00000 n xref
0000000967 00000 n
H?b```f``╤c`e`α╓a►`@ ►←(╩└q?a├|♠0F??b♠Q♠~╞"?
♀♀O←↑ZΓ↑?D'0pD0(f↔`h]┴└$■??├⌡?♀?♥FLB♀oO P??

the technical name for that is 'gobblygook'

The only way you could send it without attaching it is to put the file on a web server and send people the link to the file.

by roberto

If the users are using a Mac, the mac's email client will by default show the first page of any PDF attachments embedded in the email itself - I'm a Windows user since the late 80's :-) but 6 months ago switched to Mac and love my new life :-))
For Windows... the only option I can think of is to convert the PDF to JPG or PNG graphic files and embed them in an html-formatted email so that the images are inline with the text. There's utilities that will convert PDFs to static images...

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