[RFE] Automatically convert attachment to PDF
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: General, enhancement)
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(Not tracked)
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(Reporter: tow3, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/112.0
Steps to reproduce:
attach a file to a (new) message
Actual results:
it is attached in original file format
Expected results:
I want Thunderbird to ask me to convert the original file to PDF-file like this:
- I attach a e.g. DOCX-file
- TB answers for converting to PDF, I click 'yes'
- TB starts a printjob with PDF-printer (e.g. preset in add-on-settings), makes my MS Word print as PDF in temp-folder, then attaches the file on my message and after that deletes the file in temp-folder
This should match for all printable files I have an associated progam for on my computer, for example Coreldraw, Paint, Goodnotes, Firefox, Edge, Photoshop etc.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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We couldn't do that: there's no general way available to programmatically convert the docx to pdf.
Hello Magnus,
I realise that TB can not convert a file itself - but would'nt it be possible to create a routine that asks the user and in case of 'yes' starts a printjob for the attached file? The work of converting would be done by the pdf-printer. After tha TB would attache this PDF instead of the original file.
regards
ruby
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Comment 3•2 years ago
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While useful, there's just no way to do that for in general.
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