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Email (Desktop)¶

PDFCreator can automatically open a new email in your default email client with your created document attached to it. If Microsoft Outlook is configured as default email client, this is used to create the new email with the created files attached. If you do not have Outlook or Outlook is not your default client, the configured MAPI (Microsoft Messaging API) client will be used.

Note

If you are not using Microsoft Outlook, your email client must support the MAPI interface to work with the “open email client” action. Common clients (e.g., Mozilla Thunderbird) do this.

To see if your email client is linked with MAPI, open the windows control panel and check “default programs” -> “set your default programs”. Select your client and click on “choose defaults for this program”. If MAPI is supported, it is listed here. Enable the checkbox next to it and your email client should work with PDFCreator.

Recepient(s): You can set multiple recipients (separated by commas).

Edit subject and content: Predefine subject and content of your email. You can use tokens with specific values of the current print job (e.g., name of the attached file). If you want to support PDFCreator, we would be very pleased if you enabled our signature, but you can also use this service free of ads.

Note

Given that your email is open in your client, you can check and edit the full content of the mail before sending it.

Tip

You can use tokens here. For more information, please visit the Tokens section.

Tip

If you use the share link tokens from the OneDrive or Dropbox action, it gets detected and the output of the conversion is not attached to the email, because the files can be accessed via the provided link. By doing this you can reduce the size of your emails.

Table of Contents
  • PDFCreator
    • Introduction
    • Installing PDFCreator
    • Using PDFCreator
    • PDFCreator Settings
    • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    • COM Interface
    • License
    • Acknowledgements
  • PDFCreator Server
  • Internal License Server (ILS)
  • HotFolder
  • Support PDFCreator
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