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All of the reasons given against HTML emails hold at least equally well against PDF: it's a vector for phishing and tracking, ripe with client vulnerabilities, less accessible and not displayable on a terminal. For me as a reader having to read both an E-Mail and the attached PDF is also annoying, and many people will simply skip reading the PDF.


> For me as a reader having to read both an E-Mail and the attached PDF is also annoying, and many people will simply skip reading the PDF.

See also embedding (e.g.) a JPEG in a Word document and then attaching that Word document to an e-mail.


I've seen so many Word or PPT documents with a single hyperlink in them, uploaded to SharePoint with filenames like "process_manual_2013_v3.2.doc"...

Ugh.


Just ran across this: an HTML e-mail that is only a link (i.e., HTML <head> refresh):

* https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ch83sz/why_the_he...


If you have an employee generating phishing and tracking reference PDFs in your organization then you really have a personnel problem.




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