alibertiw01: Better Thunderbird Attachment revisited

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Better Thunderbird Attachment revisited

Ever since I wrote this hint, I was still looking for more and better ways to add attachments to Thunderbird. For one it has always annoyed me that the 'Mail PDF' function in the PDF part of the print dialog only works with Mail.app, even when Thunderbird has been set as default app for handling mail. The solution to this annoyance didn't occur to me until very recently.

In any app, for example Preview, open a document.
In the menu bar go to File » Print.
In the PDF part of the print dialog go to 'Edit Menu ...' (bottom line, last option in the menu).
A floating window appears: hit the + sign (bottom left).
Select Thunderbird from your applications folder (or any other app that will handle PDF files in some way) and hit Open in the Chooser Window
Now hit OK in the floating window

From the print dialog you can now send PDF version ...