Hi Guys So my Mum has just started her business up and has designed a flyer. we have the finished one in a pdf format and now want to electronically distribute these. Is there a way to send the PDF as the email, not just an attachment. so that when you open the mail you see the pdf. sort of like a fixed format email like the ones you get from amazon just without hosting all the files elsewhere. Thanks G
No you can't make an email display the pdf, you would need to convert it to images, host them and create the html to display them in the email (like amazon do). Printing for a mailshot isn't very expensive, especially if you deliver them yourself rather than pay a company to do it. I guess it depends on how many you are palnning on sending and the type of business.
In which case. could you tell me how to create a mailshot. could I use my mums website server to host the files? I'm not very good with code so explain it carefully for me please. TIA G
very little. I spend most of my time in design view in dreamweaver. I really should try and learn HTML but barely have enough time for my own projects let alone my mothers! ED: I am a quick learner however so if you have instructions to give please share them and I would do my best to figure it out.
ok then, seeing as thats a dead end can I put image protection on an email in thunderbird so people can't right click the images? I am tearing my hair out trying to figure it out.
No, you can't. Your options are : Embedded images in the HTML mail. Once they are in users computer, they can do whatever they want with them. Linked images (to your webserver) in the HTML mail. Same as above. PDF attachment. But users can still make screenshots of it. Simply, once anything leaves your computer, it can be duplicated, reproduced. Right click protection and similar techniques are just for internet noobs trying to protect something which can't be protected.
HTML mail. Note the HTML. Means the usual img tag with full URL to your image on your server. Your problem will be that most email clients block images by default. The reason is that it is a security risk (tracking 1x1px images). The embedded images come in two variants : cid links (the URL is cid:somestring instead of external link), which link to an attachment : http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/1759/embedding-images-revisited/ base64 encoded inline image - the image is encoded to base64 and simply put in the HTML mail as string : http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/1761/embedding-images-in-email/ But as you can imagine, it is easy to get images from all three variants. If you link to your server, all you need is to look at source of HTML mail. If you do a cid embedding, you can just download the attachment from the mail. If you do a base64 embedding, all users need to do is to copy the string and run a base64 decode on it.
right not to contradict what you were saying but I've got the result I wanted by creating the flyer in HTML. All I want to do is be able to put a transparent pic on top of the image in order to "protect" it. this may not be secure in your opinion but I am an "internet noob trying to protect".
There is no point. If I wanted to 'steal' your image I could just press print screen, even if it's to big to fit on the screen I can paste multiple screen shots together. It's not worth the time or effort.
So: 1. Embed the images - kinda self explanatory 2. Host the images then use an Code: <img src="http://mumwebsitehere.com/images/flyer.jpg" /> HTML tag in an HTML email 3. Attach the PDF
