How does a Presto message with a PDF attachement work in relationship to a default Style associated with the Presto account when the email message is printed in the Printing Mailbox?
NEWSFLASH: Presto now supports PDF
Categories: News, Rumors and Discussion Presto Styles Presto Service Sending and Checking Mail
Exclusive news for PrestoPlace members: Presto opens up the world of information to HP Printing Mailbox users.
Beginning around midnight, 10/19/07, the Presto Service added a new feature: the ability to deliver Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) email attachments through the Presto Service to owners of HP Printing Mailboxes.
This is a significant advance for Presto users because of two reasons.
1) Much of the information found on the Internet is saved as PDF-format documents. Those documents include articles, news pieces, research papers, product information, government services, and much, much more. Authorized senders can now download PDF documents from web sites and attach them to emails being delivered to HP Printing Mailboxes.
2) Many of the most popular computer applications now have the ability to create PDF-format documents. This functionality is either included as an option in the "Save-As" function, or more commonly, in the "Print" function. Pretty much any application that can print a document can "print" a PDF document (it's called "print" but really, it saves a copy of the document on your hard drive in PDF format).
Apple Macintosh computers have this functionality built in, so that any document you create in a word processor, spreadsheet, or presentation program can be saved as a PDF. You can even "print" many standard web pages as a PDF document and attach them to emails you want to send to Presto users. I use this to send Google Map directions to my Mother-in-Law.
PC users may need to download a PDF print driver to enable their machines to create PDFs through other applications. PC users that are interested in obtaining this functionality can visit the Adobe web site or other providers (Google "free PDF writers" or visit cnet.com).
So what is the big deal for Presto users? Think of these examples:
• Create and deliver a monthly calendar that is populated with doctor visit reminders and the kids' sports schedules.
• Format and send a spreadsheet with addresses & phone numbers of the entire extended family
• Download and send an interesting web article on gardening
• Take a photo of your remodel and send it as an 8.5 x 11 full page PDF image so you can get advice on your decorating options with Mom.
• Create a page that reminds a loved one which medicine they need to take and include photos of the pills!
Being able to send PDFs that are collected or created empowers Presto users to use it in ways that are only limited by their creativity. Presto Services Inc. will be announcing this feature to the general public late next week. We feel strongly that the PrestoPlace community should be the first place to learn about and experience this exciting new ability.
Please place your comments about this feature below.
Peter Radsliff (Presto Insider)
VP Marketing, Presto Services Inc.
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November 4, 2007 1:58 PM
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November 4, 2007 8:55 PM
The attached PDF file is treated as a separate page without any Presto Style formatting. So, the first page prints out with the message from the email (in the default or chosen Presto Style, and then the attached PDF file comes through as originally designed when created as a PDF.
Presto Insider: Peter Radsliff
VP Marketing, Presto Services Inc.
November 7, 2007 11:55 AM
Peter,
Any idea how PDF's that aren't in an 8.5 x 11 layout are handled? Does Presto do an automatic fit-to-page of some sort?
Presto Insider
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November 9, 2007 12:16 PM
Chris:
When both sides of a PDF are smaller than 8.5" x 11", the page is centered when printed. Similarly, a larger-size page will have the largest side of the page aligned with the print page's height (scaled and rotated if needed) and the other size will be centered.
One exception is when one side of page is a "standard" dimension (either 8.5" or 11") and the other side is smaller (say, 5" x 11"), the resulting printed page will be left-justified. Hope this helps.
Presto Insider: Peter Radsliff
VP Marketing, Presto Services Inc.
December 5, 2007 10:37 AM
FANTASTIC! I haven't tried the feature yet, but if it works as advertised, this is a HUGE addition to the functionality and usefulness of the Presto service. I haven't checked in with Presto Place for quite a while so I didn't know this feature "arrived" over six weeks ago.
I'm also surprised that with all the complaining about the lack of this PDF feature in other topics on this forum that their isn't a virtual standing ovation and mountains of affirmative comments on this topic! People, this is what we've been begging for and they have delivered!
THANKS SO MUCH, Presto folks, for listening to us "users" and for delivering in this way. I have an aging mother and a mentally challenged brother-in-law for which I manage separate Presto machines and this PDF capability just opened a whole new world of possibilities. I'm going to go try it out right now.
Thanks again Presto!
Presto Insider
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December 5, 2007 10:54 AM
Thank you, Kevin. I was also a bit surprised that there wasn't more commentary. It is indeed a huge benefit to the Presto community. I now create google map directions and save them as a PDF that I send to my mother-in-law. I also create photo montages, because I am adept with graphics programs, and send them as well. It is also very useful for sending tax forms, medical articles...almost anything you can think of.
Presto Insider: Peter Radsliff
VP Marketing, Presto Services Inc.
December 7, 2007 1:01 PM
I do not know of any others, but I have another reason why this is a great feature. When I visit my mother I always take my laptop and have had a bit of frustration on occasion because of not having a printer. Now, I can format whatever I want printed as a PDF (I use Macs) and email it to her. This will immediately save stopping off at the local Kinkos to pick up boarding passes for return flights! Google maps, application forms, etc., etc.
February 21, 2008 12:54 AM
So Peter, let me first say that since we fixed that initial Eudora problem with the obsolete .INI construct everything has been going just great for me and my mother who just loves the electronic attention.
I do have a little issue however. Everything I send her is in a PDF file as this allows me to handle my own formatting, whereby I can change font/picture sizes so that everything fits in an approriate way, etc. This has [apparently] been working just fine [I don't absolutely know for sure 'cause Mom is across the country and she not only doesn't speak *any* Technoese, but can't remember most anything that happened around her five minutes ago and beyond].
But from what I can gather, she says that she is getting an extra nearly blank page for every PDF file I send her. Now that makes sense if we assume that it consists of simply the FROM info atop the page, along with any text in the BODY, which in my case is [ostensibly] blank in total.
[Actually, the "BODY" I'm sending (which appears totally blank in Eudora) looks like the next five lines when the mailbox file is viewed with a stand-alone editor:
[HTML Construct: 'x-flowed']
[blank line]
[HTML Construct: '/x-flowed']
[blank line]
Attachment Converted: "C:\XFER\DailyMessage2.pdf"
this represents everything appearing after the first blank line that marks the start of the Body -- I can give it to you in Hex code if you want].
So, in the interest of not confusing Mom further [she thinks that I'm sending her the blank pages and that my sister is sending her all my PDF files] and in further saving trees and resources, is there some way that you, or I, can turn off printing that wasted page when the *only* thing I am really transmitting is an attached PDF file? Perhaps a Subject Code of [NoMsg]?
February 24, 2008 7:00 PM
As an Apple user, it is very easy for me to save pretty much anything as a .pdf file so I love this feature of the Presto. We are both enjoying the enhanced communications.
Sophe from Spokane
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