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The full wish is that... each time a form is filled out, a one page PDF is generated, stored in OneDrive and also emailed. The PDF should display the date, the text and the 1-6 .jpg files that were attached.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_VD1MJemmM

This video shows part of what I need. This html to pdf method seems good, but there's no info on embedding the attachments.

So I come here asking... how should this flow be made?

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To embed an image into HTML that can be successfully converted to PDF you need to convert the image binary to a data Uri using the dataUri() function.

This can be used in the img tag like <img src="<data uri>"> where <data uri> is the dynamic content of your conversion/

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Mind showing how it's done? What eludes me right now is the magic sauce that prepares and adds multiple images.

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Is there a way to use the "Populate a Microsoft Word template" action and just assign "attached image nr 1" to "imagefield1" in the template and "attached image nr 2" to imagefield2" and so on?
The 10mb limit is fine in my case.

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Bump. I found this guide for adding multiple images into html. To get Forms attachment photos, I'm guessing I need to use the Parse JSON Schema as shown here?

I tried mashing them together myself, didn't work out... Anyone care to guide me through this?

I know the images have to be replaced with thumbnails too, for it to successfully convert into PDF - that bit I managed to do, in another flow.

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Bump. Well, had to figure it out on my own. In case someone stumbles here via search... Here's how to get a Forms response with several attached images into a PDF, without using any paid connectors or trials (!) and avoiding the PDF conversion filesize limit.

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