Email Preferences

The Email Preferences section contains all of the email settings for PDF Studio Viewer.

To open the Email Preferences dialog:

1. 1. Go to File Tab > Preferences
   2. Select Email from the panel on the left of the preferences dialog to view or modify these preferences.

Settings

Enter your email account information to send PDFs from within PDF Studio Viewer.

Use Microsoft Outlook - Check to enable sending directly from Outlook (only on Windows)

Use Mac OS X Mail  - Check to enable sending directly from Mail (only on Mac)

Use PDF Studio Viewer - Check this option to use the built in email function within PDF Studio Viewer. You will need to first setup your email account information in order for this to work.

Click on Edit to input your email settings.

• User Information
• • Your Name: Name to be displayed when sending the email.
  • Your Email: Email address of the account you wish to use.
• Server Information - these settings will need to be obtained from your email service provider.
• • Outgoing server
  • Server requires authentication
  • User Name
  • Password
  • Remember Password
  • Specify Port
  • Start TLS

Use the Test Connection button to make sure that your settings are correct before saving your settings.

Use other email application - Allows you to use a command line action to start an email application. Enter the 2 command lines fields to send email with or without attachments since you must use different command lines for each of them. This can happen when running Javascript actions or when starting the mail function in PDF Studio Viewer.

Command line email examples with a subject and an attachment

Outlook on Windows:

Command line: start outlook.exe /c ipm.note /m "&subject=$filename"

Command line (with Attachment): start outlook.exe /c ipm.note /m "&subject=$filename" /a "$filepath"

Thunderbird on Linux:

Command Line: thunderbird

Command Line (with Attachment): thunderbird -compose subject=$filename,attachment=$filepath

Thunderbird/Outlook on Mac:

Command Line: open -a "Microsoft Outlook.app"

Command Line (with Attachment): open -a "Microsoft Outlook.app" $filepath

You can also click on “Add variable” to add some pre-defined variables.

To verify your settings have worked correctly, open a document and click on the email button or go to File > Email.

Note: At this moment, Mac users can only open the specific mail application without composing new email