Is it possible for me to script Illustrator to save as PDF and attach to email ?

Question

Hi,
I am after a script to save my current working file as PDF (with some settings) and then bring up a blank outlook email with that file attached ?
I do a lot of artwork and have to get it approved, I am getting bored of manually saving to PDF then going to find the file and then clicking send to > mail recipient etc etc
You know the drill guys.
So would it be possible for me to just run a script that does all that for me ready to insert the persons name or even add the persons name within the script ?
thanks
Lee

Answer 1

Well, as the kids' paper-crafts book I used to try to put together which frustrated the hell out of me, mockingly read on the bottom of the instructions: "ТЕРПЕНИЕ И ТРУД ВСЕ ПЕРЕТРУТ"
That is, patience and perseverance will overcome all. 
To use the below, you've gotta get Autohotkey_L, I believe, and it's not that hard to use.. but it takes some time to learn the various things if you want to write your own ones like this:
{{YOUR_OWN_HOTKEY_HERE}}::
  MyTempFile = C:\Users\{{YOUR_USER_NAME}}\last_proof_sent.txt
  Run {{YOUR_JSX_SCRIPT}}.jsx                                                  ;Save the PDF proof - the script needs to write a temp text file in a place somewhere, which writes the full name of your saved PDF!
                                                                                                          ; I called my temp text file "last_proof_sent.txt"
  CurrentDateTime := A_Now                                                        ;get current time
  sleep, 500
  FileGetTime, FileTime, %MyTempFile%                                              ;get mod date of this temp file
  TimeCounter = 0                                                                                ;initialize time counter for waiting for PDF to save
  While(CurrentDateTime > FileTime and TimeCounter < 1000)                    ;waiting period to see if temp text file has updated since start of this script
  sleep, 20
  TimeCounter++
  FileGetTime, FileTime, %MyTempFile%                                                      ; each time get the modification date of the temp text file
  If(CurrentDateTime < FileTime){
  FileRead, MyPDFFileName, %MyTempFile%                                                  ;read the contents of temp file for location of PDF file path (It was written there by your JSX script, hopefully)
  If Not ErrorLevel{
  m := ComObjActive("Outlook.Application").CreateItem(0)
  m.Subject := "Greetings to all"                                                                      ; <---- Subject -----
  m.To := "address here"                                                                                    ; <---- Recipient -----
  m.HTMLBody := "email body"                                                                          ; <---- Email message body -----
  m.Display
  m.attachments.add(MyPDFFileName)                                                             ;  This is the attachments!
  } else {
  MsgBox, Error Reading the temporary file %MyTempFile%
  } else {
  MsgBox, "Sorry, action timed-out."
return
*** I have tested this on one file where I had a test folder on my desktop.  The ExtendScript likes to put the file path like "~Desktop/", but I used myFile.fsName to get the full "C:/Users/Me..." name in case it was gonna be confusing to AHK.