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Shelley_Fry
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December 2, 2020
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Turning a PDF into an email

  • December 2, 2020
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Hello! Is there a way to upload a PDF into an email template, meaning the full PDF is the body of the email (plus header and footer snippets). Use case is whitelabeled sales sheets from vendors that we would like to send to our clients.

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Best answer by SanfordWhiteman

This is not possible.

 

PDF is a binary format. It can't simply become the HTML or Text body of an email (nor can it be attached, since Marketo doesn't do attachments).

 

You'd have to run the PDF through a separate HTML conversion process... which would, no doubt, have errors. They're just very different concepts.

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Michael_Florin-2
New Participant
December 3, 2020

Just happened to see this:

 

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2020/11/imported-pdf-improvements-google-docs.html

 

Probably that opens paths to workarounds.

Employee
December 3, 2020

Hi Shelley,

 

You cannot upload PDF for email. However, if you just want to show the PDF along with header and footer you can use image as an entire body instead of PDF(Take screen shot of PDF and add in email body). 

SanfordWhiteman
New Participant
December 3, 2020

An absolutely perfect, classic way to get blocked as spam — images with tons of embedded text.

 

Don't do this.

Employee
December 3, 2020

Is it? Actually I have tried few times and it worked fine. However, Thanks Sanford I'll keep in mind this going forward. 

SanfordWhiteman
SanfordWhitemanAccepted solution
New Participant
December 3, 2020

This is not possible.

 

PDF is a binary format. It can't simply become the HTML or Text body of an email (nor can it be attached, since Marketo doesn't do attachments).

 

You'd have to run the PDF through a separate HTML conversion process... which would, no doubt, have errors. They're just very different concepts.