Draft to PDF attached to Mail message on Mac?

[justin]

I’m trying to figure out whether an Action is possible on the Mac that I have set up already with Drafts and Shortcuts on my iPhone, preferably without spending hours learning JavaScript.

The Action on my phone creates a PDF from the Draft and then attaches it to an email, with the To: field pre-filled based on what I choose from a Menu in Shortcuts (I choose a client’s name and it fills in the To: field with the corresponding support personnel that need to receive the report).

Any helps or pointers would be much appreciated.

[justin]

I’m glad at least I’m not alone!

[sylumer]

Programmatic generation of a PDF from Markdown on the Mac, - try Pandoc.

Render Markdown with Pandoc

I use Pandoc a lot to convert my Markdown documents to PDF, as it supports the inclusion of Latex snippets. For me this is especially useful for Math equations. Thus I created my first Drafts action (macOS only) to convert my Markdown file to a PDF using Pandoc and I wanted to share it here: As I don’t yet really have a lot of knowledge about how the different parts of a Drafts action work, I copied the sceleton from this post: https://forums.getdrafts.com/t/copy-notes-to-obsidian-folder/8787…

Drafts can also run AppleScript to control other applications, so maybe send an e-mail via the Apple Mail app, with a file attachment using AppleScript; the attachment being the PDF generated via Pandoc.

Sending emails with attachments through AppleScript

Hope that helps.

[justin]

Thank you! I’ll give those a try~