Send Files as E-mail Attachments

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

This tutorial explains how to quickly compose an e-mail in Embird with designs as attachments, including their automatically generated thumbnails and descriptions.

1 - Run Embird.

2 - Select the designs you want to send via e-mail in the "Files:" box at the right side of the screen (Picture No. 1). To select the designs, move the mouse pointer to the file name of the first design ("ROSE2.DST" in this example), depress the left mouse button, and hold it down while moving the mouse pointer over the file names of the other designs. When the mouse pointer is over the last design ("ROSE6.DST" in this example), release the left mouse button.

3 - Select the "Right Panel > Internet > Send Files in Attachment of E-mail" menu, or click the button with the envelope icon as shown in Picture No. 1, arrow 2.

1. Select files

4 - A dialog box will appear on the screen, allowing you to specify the recipient of the e-mail (Picture No. 2, arrow 1). You can define ten presets of the most frequently used e-mail addresses. In each preset, you can specify multiple addresses separated by commas; the e-mail will be sent to all these addresses at once. Note the list of "Files to Send"; it contains the selected files from step 1, which will be attached to the e-mail. Click the button with the envelope icon to compose the e-mail to the chosen address (arrow 4 in Picture No. 2).

Tip 1: Use the buttons in section 3 of Picture No. 2 to add or remove items from the list of files to be attached to the e-mail.

Tip 2: Switch ON the settings in section 4 of Picture No. 2 if you want to automatically resize images (digital photos), send the attachment as a single .ZIP archive, and include thumbnails and descriptions of the files being sent.

2. Send Files in Attachment of E-mail

5 - Your default e-mail client application will be launched (Picture No. 3). The e-mail with attachments to the chosen recipient(s) will be automatically composed. In this example, all six designs were zipped into a single archive: FILES_06_10_2017-19-12-28.zip. There are also several .jpg image files in the attachment list; these are the thumbnail images of the selected designs. The e-mail body contains a description of the selected designs.

6 - Complete the text in the e-mail body and click the "Send" button.

3. Complete and send composed e-mail

7 - The design thumbnails are very useful for the recipient, because the content of the e-mail is immediately visible in the image (Picture No. 4).

4. Thumbnail images in e-mail attachment

8 - It is possible to switch ON the option "Options > Settings > Automatically Send Files in Attachment of E-mails" in the Manager menu (Picture No. 5) to automatically compose an e-mail to a chosen address whenever a new design is saved in Embird—for example, after saving in the Editor or converting a design in the Manager.

Tip 3: Send such an e-mail to your own e-mail address, which is accessible via the web (e.g., your account at gmail.com), and you will have your design file available on any device that has access to your e-mail account. This way, it is possible to build a whole archive (and backup) of your designs in your web e-mail box. The search capabilities of the e-mail client program, together with the design description and thumbnail, allow you to quickly find the right design in your "online private archive."

5. Automatically Send Files in Attachment of E-mails

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