PDF AS MESSAGE

[Jamshed]

Can I send a pdf file as the message body and not as attachment

 

[Pat Willener]

No, Outlook only supports plain text, HTML and RTF format in the message
body. I don't think that *any* email client supports PDF format.

If I needed to do that I would try to convert the PDF into HTML (or
Word) format, then copy and paste the result into the message.

 

[Gordon]

Can I send a pdf file as the message body and not as attachment

Yes - if you are using 2007 (can't speak for prior versions) you can create
a new message then do Insert-Object.

 

[Jamshed]

I'm using Ofice 2003 and it does not have the Insert - Object option.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It's only available when you have Word set as the email editor.
I wouldn't recommend using the Insert-> Object solution as it is no
guarantee that it will arrive like that for the recipient. Pat Willener gave
you the correct answer; convert to HTML instead.

 

[Jamshed]

If I convert to HTML will my links and bookmarks remain intact?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

That completely depends on your method of conversion but in general; yes,
they will be maintained.
What was the original source for the pdf-file? It might actually be easier
to construct an email from that source instead of the pdf-file.

 

[VanguardLH]

If I convert to HTML will my links and bookmarks remain intact?

PDFs have bookmarks only if they were added (the index points into the
document). Conversion to HTML or anything other than PDF means losing
the bookmarks. Its a PDF feature. Of course, you could write your own
HTML with anchors and a frame listing those anchors to quickly snap to a
particular part of the HTML document.

Hyperlinks are nothing more than just a text string. http://domain.com
is just a text string. Whether or not it is made into a clickable link
depends entirely on the recipient's e-mail client. If you have a <A>
tag in your HTML-formatted e-mail then it probably will be a clickable
link *if* the recipient's e-mail client renders in HTML format. If the
recipient is reading in plain-text mode, their e-mail client might find
http:// strings and make them clickable but that's a feature of their
e-mail client (it is still a text string).

So why can't your recipients see your .pdf attachments? You were going
to try to send them a PDF in the body of your e-mail which would have
still required a PDF handler to view them, anyway.

Is the PDF yours or someone else's? Who created it? Why not just
copy-n-paste the PDF doc into your e-mail's body (if the PDF isn't
protected against copying)?