Add custom PDF tool to Outlook Ribbon PDF-XChange

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Add custom PDF tool to Outlook Ribbon PDF-XChange

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Many Users receive attachments like pdf, word, excel and so on as email in Outlook.
Is there any possibility to add a custom PDF tool to outlook ribbon pdf-xchange to start a pdf tool process?

For our example, we want to export a pdf in word.
interesting is, that i can drag'n'drop a pdf from outlook to a pdf tool shortcut and starts the conversion to word document
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Re: Add custom PDF tool to Outlook Ribbon PDF-XChange

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Hello tomt,

Welcome to our forums, and thanks for your enquiry!
No - there's no integration of PDF Tools into outlook.

I am not aware whether there are any tools inside Outlook itself that could e.g. make you execute a specific command - if that is possible (this would be outside of the scope of the help we can provide) - then maybe you can add such custom buttons and have them launch a command line for the specific tool, with the PDF file attachments as parameters. Here are the command line options for starting a custom PDF Tool:
https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxt10/co ... ons_t.html

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Stefan
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Re: Add custom PDF tool to Outlook Ribbon PDF-XChange

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is there a way to configure the pdf-xchange printer so that pdftools.exe can be called with the appropriate parameters when printing?
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Re: Add custom PDF tool to Outlook Ribbon PDF-XChange

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Hello tomt,

You can create separate instances of the printer driver - each with it's separate settings, and then just call a different "printer" name from the list of existing ones:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgeba ... tandard-v7

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Stefan