PDF in body of email

[miplatt]

I may have asked this question previously.

Is it possible to send email through Digital Clay with a PDF document as the body? Currently, we are able to do HTML docs. I tried to make an html with the pdf embedded but it does not seem to work.

Suggestions?

[ZevToledano]

E-Mail only supports HTML as the 'body'. All other formats like Word and PDF are sent as e-mail attachments not as the body. It has nothing to do with Clay.

Regarding PDF specifically, Clay only supports generating PDF documents if you have Word 2010 installed and up.

[miplatt]

How about using HTML to embed a PDF document uploaded onto a website in the body? The html file itself does this properly when opened using Internet Explorer. However, when sent via Clay it is blank. Any ideas?

[ZevToledano]

I think I know what you mean about PDFs embedded inside HTMLs...but I don't think I ever saw this used successfully in e-mails. Since many of the e-mail clients won't be able to view this. Correct me if I'm wrong? Have you successfully sent an embedded PDF and viewed it in Outlook/gmail/Thunderbird/hotmail etc?

[ZevToledano]

In addition to the potential issue mentioned above, even if it does work in most major email clients, there is no guarantee that they have a PDF reader plugin installed in their email client or browser. In which case I am guessing they won't be able to view the email.

Because of these reasons I don't see this feature being implemented. Especially since a PDF body doesn't add anything over an HTML email body as far as I can see...

[miplatt]

Agreed. We have not successfully embedded PDF in Outlook. Would be nice someday.