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How can I attach a PDF in an email, using javascript in PDF document?

Apr 25, 2012 6:26 AM

Categories: Macintosh Tags: #acrobat #mail #javascript #button #form #interactive

How can I attach a PDF in an email, using an interactive button in the PDF-document?

I tried to create a form button with the menu action 'attach this PDF in an email'.

This Send.to-action doesn't work with Microsoft.

Does anyone has a solution by implementing a javascript-code for this in the PDF?

1583 Views   9 Replies   Latest reply: Robert Schmitz, May 11, 2012 2:07 AM
 
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  • Gilad D (try67)
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    1. Gilad D (try67),
    Apr 25, 2012 6:39 AM   in reply to Robert Schmitz
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    If executing that menu action did not work, it's not very likely a script

    would.

    What exactly happened when you pressed the button with that action?

     
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    2. Robert Schmitz,
    Apr 25, 2012 6:48 AM   in reply to Gilad D (try67)
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    With a form button you can aply the action 'Attach to Email...' from the Acrobat Reader menu.

    The PDF runs on a Mac without a problem. When you push the 'send to' button it opens Mail and attaches the entire PDF to you mail.

    In Microsoft this doesn't work. The button doesn't open Outlook.

    So maybe one can use a javascript like mailDoc  for this action? But how?

     
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  • Gilad D (try67)
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    3. Gilad D (try67),
    Apr 25, 2012 6:52 AM   in reply to Robert Schmitz
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    Just add a Run a JavaScript action with this code:

    this.mailDoc();

    But like I said, I don't think it would work if the menu item didn't work,

    since they both do basically the same thing.

     

    Is Outlook set-up as the default email client on your system? Was the file

    saved before you tried to email it?

     
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  • Robert Schmitz
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    4. Robert Schmitz,
    Apr 25, 2012 7:00 AM   in reply to Gilad D (try67)
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    In our company we use different systems. As a designer I am using a Mac, standard with Mail.

    Our account managers use Windows, standard with Outlook.

    Our client is having the same difficulties with Outlook.

     

    It is an interactive PDF i made with Adobe Acrobat Professional.

    The button is used to attach the PDF file the user is reading.

     

    I use an other javascript for a popmenu and this is working.

    But adressing mail is difficult in Microsoft.

     
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    5. Robert Schmitz,
    Apr 25, 2012 7:11 AM   in reply to Robert Schmitz
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    The mailDoc code works on my Mac, but doesn't work with Outlook 2010...

    Is there a code that creates a mail with the link where someone else can find the PDF?

    Maybe attaching the document is the problem.

     
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  • Gilad D (try67)
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    6. Gilad D (try67),
    Apr 25, 2012 7:16 AM   in reply to Robert Schmitz
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    app.mailMsg(true) will create a blank message (only in Acrobat, not in

    Reader), but my guess is that wouldn't work for you either.

    It's probably a problem with the way Outlook is set up on the machine.

     
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    7. Robert Schmitz,
    Apr 25, 2012 8:44 AM   in reply to Robert Schmitz
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    Adressing Mail on a Mac works.

    Example of sending a URL with Mail by using javascript:

     

    var cMyMsg = "First text line of the message:\n\n" +

    "\"Second text line with url (example): http://www.linktothedocument.pdf\n\n";

    app.mailMsg({

    bUI: true,

    cSubject: "Name of the document",

    cMsg: cMyMsg

    } );

     

    But this doesn't work on a Windows machine with Outlook 2010 either.

     
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    8. dick the flash,
    May 10, 2012 7:43 PM   in reply to Robert Schmitz
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    All you have to do is

    • make a button
    • attach the action "submit form"
    • when it asks for the email address just put "mailto:"
    • select PDF that you want returned.
    • then when you press that button it will open an email with the PDF attached
    • you can then fill in your email address
     
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    9. Robert Schmitz,
    May 11, 2012 2:07 AM   in reply to dick the flash
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    Dick,

     

    Thanks for your replie.

    Nice alternative, but it still doesn't work on a Windows machine when the

    mail software from Microsoft doesn't react on PDF actions.

    You can do many things in Acrobat, but it is a problem when it doesn't work

    on Windows and iPad.

    So now I am looking for alternatives like  interactive magazine software

    (based on html5).

     

     

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