PDF as body of email not an attachment

I want a PDF file to be the body of an email message. However, when I send it to someone it arrives as an attachment. How do I get around this so that it arrives as an opened document to a non-Mac user?? I have tried sending through Mail dragging and dropping as a PDF and a JPG, through Comcast's email system even when the box is check as attached as opened (I have also tried drag n drop as PDF and JPG in comcast), and through MS Outlook. Is there a way???

That's not possible, using a PDF. Because a PDF is an attachment.
Maybe you are talking about something like this.

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You must take into consideration that HTML & PDF are very different formats with conflicting purposes: HTML is by design intended for flexibility in appearance in such things as font & location of displayed elements, & has no fixed page size. PDF is intended to produce WYSIWYG documents, exactly the same regardless of platform, but requires either the Adobe Acrobat application or a PDF plug-in to do so.
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Or, you can convert the entire flyer to a jpeg or png image, which insures WYSIWYG output, but may make text harder to read.
Alternately, you can compose a new message as plain text or as HTML that refers to the PDF's content & either includes it as an attachment or furnishes a link to a web page that contains it. This allows you to reach the widest audience, including those who do not have a PDF app or plug-in.
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Vijaya,
thank you for you quick response.
i have followed your example logic and i now see a brief message in the body of the email. Which i part of my requirement but i'm unable to open the PDF doument.
i'm getting the error message "Abobe reader could not open 'test.PDF' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged"
Any idea why? Before adding your logic after calling the smarform to use 'CONVERT_OTF' and 'SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_ATT_SEND_API1' the attached PDF file was perfect.
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<
           EXCEPTIONS formatting_error     = 1
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in bebug mode if i look at the retuned table in debug i see values like below:
    1     //        |XPDF1        0640 00000000001                                <
    2     IN        |04EYZSF_SD_WKI_EMAIL_CONF                                      <
    3     IN        |05FIRST                                                        <
    4     OP        |LETTER P 144 240 1581712189000010000100001                   <
    5     IN        |06WK_BRANDS_COLOR_LOGO                                         <
    6     MT        |0210001134                                                     <
<< Unformatable text removed >>>
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