Please tell me how to always display attached PDF file as a file icon. Sometimes attaching a PDF file displays the contents of the PDF file.
iMac 27″, macOS 13.3
Single-page PDFs appear as an expanded document (View in Place) unless they are blank, in which case they appear as an icon. If you want the single-page PDF to appear just like multi-page PDFs, as an icon, then right-click on the single-page PDF icon and choose View as Icon.
Quit Apple Mail. You can tell Apple Mail to always iconify attached PDFs by launching the Terminal, copy the following, and pasting into the Terminal, followed by a return:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
The next time you launch Mail and attach a single-page PDF to the Mail compose window, it will be iconified, and the right-click option to VIew In Place will be disabled, though you can single-click it and press the space bar to view it as a Quick Look item.
All of this is for your benefit as it does not control how the recipients Mail application presents the attachments to them.
Single-page PDFs appear as an expanded document (View in Place) unless they are blank, in which case they appear as an icon. If you want the single-page PDF to appear just like multi-page PDFs, as an icon, then right-click on the single-page PDF icon and choose View as Icon.
Quit Apple Mail. You can tell Apple Mail to always iconify attached PDFs by launching the Terminal, copy the following, and pasting into the Terminal, followed by a return:
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
The next time you launch Mail and attach a single-page PDF to the Mail compose window, it will be iconified, and the right-click option to VIew In Place will be disabled, though you can single-click it and press the space bar to view it as a Quick Look item.
All of this is for your benefit as it does not control how the recipients Mail application presents the attachments to them.
VikingOSX thank you for trying to help me. I tried your suggestion regarding the copy & paste of your suggested statement in Terminal. It did not work. I copied and pasted the whole statement starting with "defaults" and ending with "yes".
Cheers,
Hank Gartland
Quit Apple Mail first. You must press return after pasting the defaults command sequence in the Terminal. Then launch Apple Mail and attach a single-page PDF to a Mail compose window. I see a PDF icon by default for an attached single-page PDF in Apple Mail on my Monterey 13.3.1 (a) installation.
Viking, thanks for responding so quickly. I believe I followed your instructions correctly, but it didn't work. I have Ventura 13.3.1. Here's what the Terminal looked like after the copy, paste, & return.
Attach PDF files to email message. Sometimes shows entire message; sometimes shows icon.