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I wish I could send invoices from my office without having to split pdfs in to chunks due to download size limits. It almost as ridiculous as having a fax machi
by floor_ 7y ago
I wish I could send invoices from my office without having to split pdfs in to chunks due to download size limits. It almost as ridiculous as having a fax machine in 2019.
- nostalgk 7y agoHow big are your invoices? I generate PDFs both from code and HTML, and in general even the largest ones aren't above 500kb. Usually around 100-250 pages.
- floor_ 7y agoThe invoice includes scanned bills of lading we get mailed in from our drivers. An invoice size can range from around 2.5mb to 12mb+. An we usually try to batch multiple invoice per email for their convenience. Things like 9 pin printer and colored copy paper bloat the sizes even with max size reduction enabled.
- nostalgk 7y agoMakes sense. It would be cool if email providers could just convert an attachment into a link so it can still be sent over email for those large files.
- dhosek 7y agoApple's mail program does this. If the receiver of the email is also using Apple mail, the link aspect is transparent. I've only had to use it a few times, but it was wonderfully helpful.
- rini17 7y agoExcuse me, but invoices should NEVER be multi-megabyte PDFs. Fix your PDF generator.
- floor_ 7y agoThe invoice includes scanned bills of lading we get mailed in from our drivers. An invoice size can range from around 2.5mb to 12mb+. An we usually try to batch multiple invoice per email for their convenience. Things like 9 pin printer and colored copy paper bloat the sizes even with max size reduction enabled.
- willvarfar 7y agoIts most likely just poor image compression from their cameras or scanners or whatever the drivers are using. I once worked on an app on phones that used libjpeg because te built-in 'hardware assisted' jpeg encoder was so bad. The typical photo was 5MB and simply reencoding it with libjpeg defaults resulted in under 1MB. A simple bit of command-line magic can typically shrink those images massively before you email them onward.
- dijit 7y agoWhat if that file could be transparently uploaded to an s3/gcp bucket and the URL placed in the email? Better or worse? I believe the main reason that there is a 10mbit limit is that if it's much higher then you have two consequences: 1) Mail in transit (and queue buffers) are going to be very heavy 2) Inbound mail being very large could cause you to exceed your storage limit and hamper the deliverability. Point 2 is mostly mitigated now with the advent of cheap as chips storage, but point 1 is going to hurt mail relays.
- gberger 7y agoI believe there is already some kind of integration between Gmail and Gdrive. You can attach files from your Google Drive and what really gets sent is a link.
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- pimlottc 7y agoThis integration exists, but it’s a choice for the sender and it’s not transparent for the receiver. As a sender, when you select a file from Drive, it defaults to sending a link, but you can change it to send as a normal attachment. As a receiver, I believe you will see a Google Drive link, not a normal attachment.