Embedded attachments

Hi Guys, My application requires that the Form (pdf) on submission should retain embedded attachments. But every time after an approver in the process adds a attachment by clicking the paper clip icon in the form (pdf), and adds a file as an embedded attachment. The attachment is not retained in the following activity.
Kindly advice on how to accomplish this requirement.
Note – The PDF form is applied with usage rights

Thanks Paul for your interest in this discussion.
The problem that i am currently facing is that,
Case 1 :-
when a process with workspace start point and input variable of data type document is created, the form is capable of retaining the embadded attachment(not in the envelop thats part of the workspace) that the users in the process add to the document variable.
The process fields variable that is in the form gives the User in the process with a ablity to SAVE the form to the draft, but when the form is opened in the draft, the Form does not appear in its PDF format, instead a XML is shown.
SAVE functionality does not work as expected in the above case
Case 2 :-
when a process with workspace start point and input variable of data type xml is created, the form is not capable of retaining the embadded attachment(not in the envelop thats part of the workspace) that the users in the process add to the Form
SAVE functiality provided by process fields in the form works fine in this scenario.

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Hi guys,
I am having the reverse problem with attachments, I actually *want* a file to remain embedded in an email. When my clients on PC or webmail open my e-mails, the attachment comes through no longer inline, but as an attachment that they have to click and download. It happens whether the file is a .jpg or .pdf. I have "Windows friendly Attachments" checked.
Is there a work-around to this? I know in Outlook you can manually embed an image, but I don't want to have to buy it just to be able to work with PC clients.
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
The mail servers and other factors that have been mentioned are actually rarely an issue in this case. The problem lies in Mail, which will send an HTML message with correctly embedded images only if all of the following conditions are met:
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The message does not contain any attachments other than images.
If you don't need to send embedded images very often and stick to the three above rules, it will work OK.
If you need to send embedded images reliably without having to worry about formatting and other attachments you can try Attachment Tamer: It's a Mail plug-in that among other things allows you to send embedded images reliably. It always sends attachments as they are displayed (images displayed in place are sent as embedded images, any files displayed as icons as regular attachments). You set up how you prefer files to be displayed and attached and default, and then adjust individual attachments as needed. Unlike Thunderbird, Attachment Tamer isn't free, but it costs just a few bucks and integrates with Apple Mail seamlessly (and there is of course a free trial version).
(The forum conditions require me to say that I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link. Indeed, I'm the developer of Attachment Tamer.)

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Hello all,
I have a strange problem that I can't seem to find any information on anywhere. Whenever I receive a photo or pdf embedded in an email message, I get this:
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Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="photo.JPG"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="photo.JPG"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
X-Attachment-Id: a2dfcd5d7b6b406c_0.1
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/4QLqRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgACwEPAAIAAAAGAAAAkgEQAAIA
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AAAAAQAAAiCSBwADAAAAAQABAACSCQADAAAAAQAYAACSCgAFAAAAAQAAAiiSFAADAAAABAAAAjCg
AAAHAAAABDAxMDCgAQADAAAAAQABAACgAgAEAAAAAQAABRCgAwAEAAAAAQAAA8iiFwADAAAAAQAC
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So your Gmail account works fine for you when you just view it on the web through your browser, but you have this problem with attachments when you set up Apple Mail to view your Gmail account, is this correct? Just trying to clarify.
I'm not sure what's going on. I use Apple Mail with my cable ISP's email service and I use Yahoo and Gmail both, but I strictly view them using the web based interface. I've never tried to set up either one to be viewed in Apple Mail so I don't think I can offer much advice.
Correct me if I've wrongly assumed something about your question.
Regards,
Steve M.

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Hi. Whenever I forward an email with embedded photos or pictures, to a windows user the pictures are so small they cannot be viewed. I have ' always send windows friendly attachments checked' also 'put attachments at end of message', although because these are embedded, I don't have any choice where they go. I have forwarded an email with embedded attachment to a friend with a mac and he has sent that email to the same receiver and it comes out alright. Nobody seems to have a solution. Is there a setting I can change or is my new mac on it's last legs?!!! Thanks in anticipation of any help.

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<hr>
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
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Rob,
There is a great way to do that, but it requires a third-party plug-in to achieve the automation you're after. It's called AutoPortfolio and is available from an Adobe Solution Partner called Evermap. One of its many capabilities is the conversion of email contained in a Portfolio (Portfolios are the key ingredient here), which already contains the embedded attachments as a result of conversion from Outlook or Lotus Notes with Acrobat, to a standard or "flat" PDF. As part of this process, it gives you the option to extract any embedded attachments and convert them to PDF, after which they will appear as an additional page in the resulting flat PDF file. Nested bookmarks are also created as part of this process for both the parent email and each attachment.
Although you are only referring to a single email, this process can be applied to extremely large Portfolios, up to the limitations of your computer's RAM and CPU. It has several other uses, but the process you are referring to is a flagship feature.
Disclosure: I have no affiliation of any kind with Evermap, but did address the use of several of their products in my book, "The PDF Litigation Guide."
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Jason Covey
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Stripping Attachments from Mail messages.

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Hey thanks for the suggestions.
Firstly, embedded attachments can be dragged out of the email messages on Windows as they can on OS X.
Getting our clients to work like this could be difficult as they all have 1024px screens and from what we've seen they always have their windows maximised (in fact most Windows users seem to do this). But we'll suggest it.
Secondly, when you next plan to make an attachment be sure to use the menu or toolbar option for selecting an attachment. When the Choose File dialog appears you will see a checkbox in the lower left labeled "Use Windows friendly attachments." Be sure that option is checked.
We do this but it still doesn't seem to work - maybe their MailMarshal software is causing this?
Thirdly, be sure any attachment you send has the proper extension. For example, PDF files should have ".pdf", and JPEGs should have ".jpg" or ".jpeg" in order to be consistent with what Windows applications expect.
Yes, we do this.
Fourthly, often certain documents on OS X do not have an extension or the extension is slightly different, for example, Word documents may be ".docx" on the Mac, but need to be ".doc" in order for Word for Windows to open the document by double-clicking.
Have come across this also.
Fifthly, ZIP files should not normally be confused with junk. Your IT department may need to consider making some changes to their email filtering software.
We don't have an IT department, and based on recent conversations with their IT guys, they're definitely not interested in taking suggestions on email security from Mac users!
Will see how we go with getting our clients to work differently but I'd personally prefer to sort it our end - from their point of view it's a Mac issue and from what I can see I think they might be right.

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Victims of our own success: what was originally created as internal content on our private OS X Server wiki now is being requested for presentation on an externally hosted web service. Management wants this content to be accessible to constituents on the outside in a searchable database on a completely different service not administered by us on the inside.
The developer building the database has asked for this content to be exported in CSV for easy import into the new database: page title, tags (a.k.a. keywords, not to be confused with HTML formatting tags), and page content.
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Considering that we're talking about ~200 pages of content, I'd like to avoid a manual process of that kind. I've been through the official Wiki Server Admin Guide, but it offered no help for exporting content in the way I need.
I'm fairly comfortable with AppleScript, less so with shell/bash scripting. Since I'm trying to save time, I'm not sure that's my answer on this scale. Debugging a script (for me) might take longer than a simple copy/paste of 200 items (maybe I'm wrong).
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Unfortunately, exporting the wiki data into a format that databases can understand is not a trivial process. Pages are stored as a collection of folders that contain the wiki text, the HTML for display, the change history, the comments, and the attachments.
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http://yourserver.com/groups/general/wiki/abc12/mywikipage.html
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abc12.page - folder for wiki page
!- attachments - folder for attachments
!- images - folder for images
! page.html - html (probably a cache) for display
! page.plist - property list file with all notes on the
! revisions.db - SQLite database file that contains all the revisions.
You would need a script that runs as the _teamserver user to read every .page directory, parse the .plist files, and generate a SQL statement to preserve all the text, markup, and quotations. If you program really well, you could search for the URLs in every .plist file and record the embedded attachments and images, and copy them to another location.
For my first project, I parsed the .plist files just to get a map of the random page URL and the title. I also found out about "deleted" and "tombstoned" states, and elected to ignore those.
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