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Email PDF File After Creation

The following will show you how to attach the new PDF file to an email in Outlook. After the PDF is created, a new email is displayed and the PDF is attached.

In this example, we will use a very simple Visual Basic Script (VB Script) file that can be run from a command line.

Option Explicit

Dim fn
Dim ol, ns, newMail
Const olMailItem = 0

Rem -- Check that there is the right number of arguments
If WScript.Arguments.Count <> 1 Then 
	Msgbox "Wrong arguments"
	Wscript.Quit
End If

Rem -- Get the file name from the command line
fn = WScript.Arguments.Item(0)

Rem -- Get access to the Outlook application
Set ol = WScript.CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set ns = ol.getNamespace("MAPI")

Rem -- Create the new mail
Set newMail = ol.CreateItem(olMailItem)

Rem -- Attach the file
newMail.Attachments.Add fn

Rem -- Display the new message
newMail.Display

Rem -- Clean up
Set newMail = Nothing
Set ns = Nothing
Set ol = Nothing

Save the code to a script file named C:\Program Files\bioPDF\PDF Writer\EmailOnSuccess.vbs.

Now you can make the printer run the script if the PDF was created successfully. Add the following two lines of code to a configuration file. In this example, we can place them in global.ini.

RunOnSuccess=cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\bioPDF\PDF Writer\EmailOnSuccess.vbs" "%1"
RunOnSuccessMode=Normal

This will run the script and pass the new PDF document as a parameter.

You can easily modify this script to delete the PDF after attaching it if you do not want it on your system after it is sent.

 
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