Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I am in need of saving all of my email messages in my inbox as individual PDF documents. I know you can do it one at a time via "Print>save as PDF" but we are talking about a few hundred email messages here.
Is there anyway to take advantage of something like automator or could someone show me some software to batch save all of these messages?
Thanks so much for the help.
-Christian
Apple Mail-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
you mean like this:
file://localhost/Users/alexanderschellings/Desktop/Demo%20mail%20pdf.tiff
if that was a screen shot it didn't come through 😟
When I select multiple emails in Mail and then go File > Print > PDF I just get a simple error dialog that says "Error: Error while printing"
It was a screen shot 8tiff): here the same as jpg
file://localhost/Users/alexanderschellings/Desktop/Demo%203%20mails.jpg
In this thread some people want to automatically create one PDF per message, and some people want all selected messages to go into a single PDF. For the second group, this seems to work:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2557248?start=0&tstart=0
That is, it seems to create a single PDF with all of the messages inside it.
@radio50, I'm in the first group 🙂
@Lex: That screenshot also did not come through -- it just shows a local file path, no actual image embed. Perhaps dragging an dropping an image doesn't work in the forums? Or for some reason the image upload tool isn't working.
It shows Preview with a pdf open in which 3 mails are.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14902141/Demo%203%20mails.jpg
The method is in radios post.
there is also a third party application that is used as backup application and that put whole mailboxes in a large pdf file. I forgot the name but is was mentioned in one of the threads about half a year ago.
(I've set Preview's Preferences to open all files in one window but it doesn't, it keeps opening multiple emails individually.)
I can drag-drop emails singly into DIRs outside of Mail.app. Is there a key combination I can press which would let me drag-drop multiple emails to a Directory outside of Mail.app?
I have emails that have pdf attachments displayed as icons. When I export as pdf, the attachment shows up as a picture only. The pdf file loses the ability to click on the attachment to open it. This only happens sometimes. Other times, it works fine and I can click the icon inside my pdf and open it. On my emails that show the attachment inline, I have no problem savings as pdf. But I have not been able to convert the icon attachments to inline once I receive the email.
Batch save Mail messages as PDF's
