I am trying to create a zap where if an email with a certain subject string is sent to me, it automatically saves the body as a file in a specific folder. I could do all of this but I need those files to be in PDF format. How do I go about this?
Last I looked a few months ago, I couldn't find a free convert to PDF function, but there are a few paid subscription apps that would create and return PDFs using the email body.
Search "pdf" on https://zapier.com/apps and you'll see a bunch of options.
If the email is in HTML you can pass the body_HTML field to Cloud Convert. Then use Capture a Website to convert it to a PDF. see screenshot
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I have asked this question on https://community.adobe.com/ and have not received an answer. If I do, I will include the response here.
I am able to create a pdf using the basic approach outlined by adobe at https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/document-generation-api/
Ideally, I don't want to have to send the base docx word document across in the api call each time I generate a new pdf. I would rather host the docx which can be retrieved at document generation time. One approach would be a reference url to a docx hosted on acrobat.adobe.com. At the moment I have to send the docx as well as the json data which seems inefficient.
I am using https://cpf-ue1.adobe.io/ops/:create
"cpf:inputs":{
"documentIn":{
"dc:format":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
"cpf:location":"InputFile0"
},
I guess if it can't be done, then that's okay, I just would like to know so I can implement accordingly.
thank you
I'm trying to use a logicapp to get the content of an email and post it to slack. By content I mean:
the body of the email and other elements like From:, Subject:
any attachment in the email (which usually are binary like PDF, Excel, image)
the email itself saved in a blob as .eml file
Slack chat.postMessage API works without any problem to send any text element. This API has some attachment argument but doesn't seemto be designed or binary files (or not for files at all, only strings)
I've tried slack files.upload one but couldn't figure out the syntax, especially the syntax using a regular HTTP POST. Could find examples online using curl, Python, JS and C# SDK but I don't know how to translate them to HTTP POST just like I do with chat.PostMessage
I've tried the API on SOAP UI, using file as argument as per the documentation, and I've used it in different sections: in the header, in the body, and using the Attachment Tab, none of the work and always the same error message : no_file_data
Unfortuatelly slack documentation lacks of details. Here's what it says about files.upload:
You must provide either a file or content parameter.
The content of the file can either be posted using an enctype of multipart/form-data (with the file parameter named file), in the usual way that files are uploaded via the browser, or the content of the file can be sent as a POST var called content. The latter should be used for creating a "file" from a long message/paste and forces "editable" mode.
In both cases, the type of data in the file will be intuited from the
filename and the magic bytes in the file, for supported formats.
I could use alternatives like just saving the attachments in blobs and use Azure functions to send the file, but I want to understand what's the limitations before changing the method.
Any clue?
The idea was to be able to, as soon as a receive a mail with a PDF attached, find a way in which the PDF can be downloaded and be searched for a specific keyword (for instance, see if my name is in it) and if my name is on any of the pages of the PDF, then send another mail notifying the user that there’s a pdf in which he has been named.
This is in order to avoid having to check dozens of mails daily and PDFs just to see if your name is in it or not.
I managed to do this using Zapier but I relied on PDFco’s API for the search, and it is payware, so I’m taking a different approach.
My question is more based on what library would make that search inside the PDF and would provide a Boolean value that said if the keyword exists or not.
Thank you!
I wish to send a letter to my prospective client. By inputting
Email ID and Person Name and postal address able to send an email with PDF attachment.
I have one letter template in word.
How to do.
Thanks in Advance
An easy way to create a PDF is to use Google Docs. Open up a word document in Google docs and then simply export as PDF.
Great article about this here.
The PDF files are in my Google Drive. I just got that I can get the number of pages of a PDF sending it as a job to Cloud Print, because Cloud Print will return a JSON object with "numberOfPages" attribute.
Is there any faster and easier way? Thanks in advance.
Well, I actually did like I said.
I take my file, then send it to CloudPrint via its JSON Api. I need to send it to a dummy printer, a printer I registered in CloudPrint but actually is never connected to Internet. Then, I get the number of pages of the PDF file in the value of response's "numberOfPages" attribute. Save this number in some var. Finally, I send a delete petition to JSON Api for my file in the dummy printer, indeed isn't necessary at all.
Thanks!