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PDF-T-Maker is a free add-in to Microsoft Word for creating rich PDF documents. Normally, using tools like PDFCreator is enough when I want to output to PDF files. However, sometimes when I need to create a PDF document with table of contents and links, PDF-T-Maker is a good replacement for Acrobat. The idea is that I create the rich document is MS Word, then have PDF-T-Maker convert it to PDF with the meta information preserved.

One thing that bugs me however, is that after installing this add-in I then get the Security Warning dialog every time I launch Word.

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2 long weeks of waiting… Sweet!

If you’ve ever wondered what that ubiquitous Enable as Page Anchor checkbox is for, here is a quick tutorial (new window).

Here’s the resulting page behavior (new window).

Interesting tests (video) from Dell. I want one!

PeopleTools 8.4x added an option in the PeopleCode function SendMail() for specifying the content-type. In PeopleBooks, what is immediately highlighted is the ability to format your emails using HTML by setting the content-type to text/html. What probably isn’t well known is that it is also possible to set the content-type to other MIME types such as multipart/related.

text/html alone will allow you to format the text of your message. But if you need to display an image such as a logo, <img> tags inside your html will need to link to images stored in a web server somewhere. Sometimes, this is not ideal. With multipart/related, you can embed images in your email messages.

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The PeopleCode SendMail() function is a quick and easy way to send emails from your PeopleSoft application. Unlike workflow routing and Notification classes, SendMail() provides the most functionality when it comes to sending emails. Over the newer releases, PeopleSoft has further added new capabilities to this function like overriding the content-type and sender details. However, the feature that I find the least used is the inclusion of file attachments. This is because in PIA, PeopleCode runs either on the Application server or the Batch server. The files that can be attached should be either 1) located on the server, or 2) accessed by the server through a network share. For this reason, most applications that use file attachments are Application Engine programs (running on the Batch server) that attach log files from within the server.

If you’ve used web-based email services like Yahoo, then you’ll find it a common feature to allow attachments to be uploaded by a user from his workstation and send those attachments with the email message. Is this possible in PeopleSoft’s internet architecture? The answer is yes, this article will show you how.

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