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rayfinfer - Mar 19, 2008 - 8:37 am

My IP: 70.234.227.28
My Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

I want to attach a PDF file to emails I send out so that when the recipient opens email it is there, not an attachment that has to be opened. There used to be a program called Front Page, but I cannot find a current version that will work with my Mac (2GHz Intel Core Duo with 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM and version 10.4.11).

Any suggestions as to what software will work with this? Does Acrobat have a way to do it?
Thanks!

earthsaver - Mar 19, 2008 - 9:02 am

The question you're not directly asking is how to display your content in HTML. More importantly, what is the source of the content?, prior to it becoming a PDF. Naturally, PDF attachments are dependent on the receiver's email client preferences as to whether any content is displayed in-line. Hence your desire to make HTML out of it. Elaborate, please.

- Ben

rayfinfer - Mar 19, 2008 - 9:07 am

Sorry. I produce the page in Quark with images and type and export it as PDF file. Then to make the file small enough to send through email, I go to Acrobat 7.0 Professional and use PDF Optimizer to reduce it for email. I can easily attach it to an email, but unlike attaching a JPG which opens in email, the recipient has to open the PDF attachment. What I want to do is have the file open when they open email. I get lots of newsletter and announcements through email that when I open the email there it is. That's what I am trying to do.
Thanks for your help.

earthsaver - Mar 19, 2008 - 10:15 am

Mail shows all single-page image attachments in-line. So one-page PDFs will appear just like JPEGs, but multi-page PDFs appear as an icon. So, short of saving single-page copies of each page of your document, you would need to export it in HTML. I can't help you further than this and will reopen your question if you require more guidance.

rayfinfer - Mar 19, 2008 - 10:18 am

Thanks for the info. I must be doing something wrong because even single page PDFs do not open with email, but show up as attachments. I know there must be a software program that will convert PDFs to HTML that open like I want, but have no idea what.

Appreciate your comments.

earthsaver - Mar 19, 2008 - 10:32 am

Outside of the high-end and expensive GLUON WebXPress plug-in for Quark, the only choice I can find is PDFtoHTML.

rayfinfer - Mar 19, 2008 - 10:41 am

Thanks. I will download and give it a try. You have been very helpful.

earthsaver - Mar 19, 2008 - 11:21 pm

Any success so far?

rayfinfer - Mar 20, 2008 - 5:12 am

Nope. I downloaded PDFtoHTML but cannot get it to open. Did not have time to work on it much yesterday and won't today, but am off all day tomorrow and will see why it will not open. Thanks for your help.

earthsaver - Mar 20, 2008 - 8:01 am

In the meantime, I'm reopening your question to pool other techs for answers.

Natobasso - Mar 20, 2008 - 11:26 am

Quark exports to html natively. No need for a pdf:
http://www.quark.com/service/forums/...pic.php?t=1458

Make sure the html code output has all styles inline and not referring to an external css sheet. If you send this email with a ton of images it will be slow loading and you'll lose customer interest, so make sure you have 3 images or fewer if you can.

rayfinfer - Mar 20, 2008 - 2:25 pm

Man, Natobasso, I do not understand any of what you just said. Do not know what "all styles inline" or "an external css sheet" mean. Guess I just need to forget about doing this. It seemed like a good idea but it also seems way above my skill level. I just wanted to send a newsletter that people could see when they open their email. Will just keep attaching PDFs.
Thanks for trying, though.

Natobasso - Mar 20, 2008 - 2:48 pm

Nah, it's not that hard really. Just using technical terms. Basically, you're sending an html email which means the best chance for it to be viewed means it has to be simple. All styles, ie bold on fonts, etc., need to be in the document you send.

I'd try exporting your quark doc to html (File/Export, I imagine?) and emailing that to yourself to see if it works. You will have to host those images on a webserver that's freely accessible (website) and link to those images directly, ie. www.mydomain.com/images/myimage.jpg

Include a link to that page on the web in case people have html turned off in their email; many do.

Other way to do it is go with a service like www.mailchimp.com and send your html through that service.