sending a PDF mail attachment in iOS7

Scott Morrow scott at elementarysoftware.com
Fri May 16 21:16:09 EDT 2014


Alan,
Brilliant! That did the trick in my case. Thank you much.
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On May 14, 2014, at 3:56 AM, Alan Stenhouse <alanstenhouse at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Scott, William
> 
> Did you try setting the MIME type for the attachment to "application/pdf" instead of just "pdf"?
> 
> i.e.
> 
> put "application/pdf" into aAttachments[1]["type"]
> 
> Worth a try though I admit that I haven't used this yet (but with other types I have).
> 
> HTH
> 
> cheers
> 
> Alan
> 
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> On 14/05/2014, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
> 
>> 2014-05-13 9:33 GMT+02:00 Scott Morrow <scott at elementarysoftware.com>:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Using mobileComposeHtmlMail to send a PDF attachment works as expected
>>> under iOS 6
>>> but under iOS 7 the email to be sent (in the iOS 7 mail app) has a small
>>> box with a question mark instead of the pdf attachment icon (I also tested
>>> a text attachment and that seems to display correctly)
>>> There does not appear to be an error during the creation of the pdf and in
>>> some cases the mail client on the receiving end displays the pdf
>>> attachment. Unfortunately, on some mail clients the pdf fails to show up.
>>> I?m wondering if anyone else is seeing this or can suggest what I might be
>>> doing incorrectly.
>>> <  LC 6.6.1, 6.6.2 (rc 3) and 6.7 (dp 3) >
>>> 
>>> -- construct an attachment array
>>> -- tFilePath is the path to a pdf
>>>        put empty into aAttachments -- init
>>>        set the itemDel to SLASH
>>>        put item -1 of tFilePath into tAttachmentName
>>>        set the itemDel to COMMA  -- tidy
>>>        put tFilePath into aAttachments[1]["file"]
>>>        put "pdf" into aAttachments[1]["type"]
>>>        put tAttachmentName into aAttachments[1]["name"]
>>> -- ?????????????????????????????????????????
>>> -- assume  tSubject, tToAddress, tCC, tBCC, tBodyAsHTML were previously
>>> populated
>>> -- ?????????????????????????????????????????
>>> -- send the e-mail
>>>        mobileComposeHtmlMail tSubject, tToAddress, tCC, tBCC,
>>> tBodyAsHTML, aAttachments
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> Scott Morrow
>>> 
>>> Elementary Software
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