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On 30/04/2010, at 12:54 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:

I have never seen a PDF document embedded in the body of an email. The receiving email client would need to be able to process embedded pdfs which is the same for embedded html. Most modern email readers can deal with html but I don't know if any that can deal with pdf

Then get a Mac. It will show one page PDFs directly within the e-mail client. Multi-page documents are handled differently--like normal attachments. I suspect this is just a mail client thing. Apple Mail must examine the attachment/inline file and decide whether to render in place or not. Large attachments can be examined via QuickLook without (generally) having to detach or open a specific application.

It does much the same with images too.

Not sure it matters since both types of PDF are sent the same way but here is the MIME information used:

--Apple-Mail-3-70350868
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="Picture.pdf"
Content-Type: application/pdf;
x-unix-mode=0644;
name="Picture.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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