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Alamond
Alamond
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March 25, 2024
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email in pdf

  • March 25, 2024
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When I click email link in pdf document it opens blank page in browser instead in g mail!

Any idea how to solve it!

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 25, 2024

    Assuming your mailto: link is well-formed, you've got to have an email client installed for it to launch - gmail isn't an email client that's installed on a machine.

      Bob_Niland
      Community Expert
      Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 25, 2024

      A mailto:  URL is going to try to open the default email application on the system (presumably windows, but the PDF could be being read on any number of different platforms).

      As Jeff mentioned, there is no stand-alone Gmail client app for Windows. The web offers various hacks to make thing sort-of work, perhaps the easiest of which is to get the default client (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird) to access the Gmail account. I've not tried to make that connection, so this is more than I know.

       

      The other option would be the use an http: URL form, crafted to go to Gmail in the default browser.

       

      Plus, if the PDF is for use by other people, they cannot be presumed to have Gmail accounts to access by any means.

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