I'm posting this in the general 360Works forum because I have a feeling that the solution would no one specific 360Works product.

I am trying to allow my users to send email with multiple attachments via filemaker. My users are uploading multiple page attachments via a supercontainers portal. Using iText and Scriptmaster, these multiple attachments are then combined in to one single attachment and sent via Filemaker. Because we don't want the email recipients messing with the layout and formats of the attachments themselves, one of the limitations placed on this project is that these attachments must always be PDF's. Unfortunately the source files are a mix of PDF's, Excel and Word Documents. Right now the users have to manually convert the attachments prior to uploading them in to Fimaker and this can take quite some time given a particular users familiarity with Adobe, word, etc.

I'm wondering if there is a way to have these attachments converted from their native format in to PDF. This would save a bunch of time and allow a lot more flexibility in implementing these changes.

There may be a way in Script Master if you can find the right groovy code and or jars that can convert a document (word /excel) as a PDF

you could target all your documents to a Folder and then upload the folder back to SuperContainer which will zip the folder. And then send that attachment.

the end user will be able to expand the zip and it would contain the PDF version of Word / Excel files.

We don't have any plugins or modules at this time that will allow you to convert documents to pdf, but we may be able to make a solution for you. If you are interested in a quote for a module or plugin that will help you with this please send an email to [email protected] with some information about what you are trying to do in as much detail as possible and we'll be able to get you a quote for the work.

Left field

With Scriptmaster

Use the Open Office API from java using scripts to convert the XLS and DOC files to PDF then some learning on the iText library to do things like concatenate