markr1963

We've got a web page that opens a PDF in the browser when a link is clicked. We'd like to have a link or a button (or...) that when clicked opens the user's email client and adds the PDF as an attachment.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

TIA
Mark

judgejules

AFIK this isnt possible as it would be a security risk.

Not 100% sure thought.

J

GaryK

yep agreed,

You cant do it client side because basically the mailto clause doesnt support attachments (although you can specify subject and body) and sever side you could do it using cgi/php or whatever but chances are alot of hosts wont let you because of the security issue. I take it the PDF is a form the surfer fills out which gets sent back, why not just do it an a HTML form to capture the information and send it using FORMMAIL?

Gary

markr1963

Thanks guys

It's nothing so complicated as filling in a form. We have to submit certain documents to clients and in general we use PDF. From our end the ops guys need to be able to view these documents but not be able to alter them. PDF again made sense so they're viewable over the intranet. I've had a couple of users asking if it's possible to attach the PDF they are viewing to an email. If it can't be done we'll find another way

Kind of thing I'm looking for is the right click option 'e-mail to' as for images


Mark

Iain Young

Unfortunately, that is a function provided by the web browser rather than anything you can access from javascript etc. As mentioned before, you cannot do this because of the security implications...

Why not set up some sort of shopping basket system where you can select (using checkboxes for example) which files you wish to attach, create a form with input fields for email address and message, (similar to the bbs post editor for example) and a submit button.

All this would be submitted to a cgi prog (like formmail), which would construct and send the email to the specified address, with the selected files attached.

Just a thought...

Iain

Avi

Use adobe reader 6, click on the email icon at the top.

It asks if you want to email a copy of the pdf and opens up a new message in outlook.

Avi

It then opens a new message in outlook, with the pdf attached for you.

markr1963

That's the badger

Cheers Avi