Mac Mail How To Hide/Remove Default Headers When Printing or Saving as PDF

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Mac Mail How To Hide/Remove Default Headers When Printing or Saving as PDF

Prior to Yosemite -- or at least in Mountain Lion -- when I wanted to print or save an email as a PDF, I was able to hide all header information in Preferences/Viewing/Show Message Headers/None.

The "None" option has been removed, and now the "Default" along with the "Custom" options are the only choices -- meaning I am unable to hide the "To" or "Reply-To" Default categories as the "Custom" choice only provides the ability to add header detail.

I will add a qualification to what I understand to be the Default heading categories as I think I may have somehow added "Reply-To" to the Default header setting....

In any event, I am unable to alter the "Default" setting or remove the default header in a "Custom" setting choice.

Am I missing something?

I've searched for an answer and can find only information related to past Mac operating systems and in one case the same question with no answer posted in January:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/166986/how-do-i-print-an-email-from-mai l-app-without-mail-headers

I can't imagine that this option has disappeared without a work-around other than copying and pasting to another program....Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thank you.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Aug 7, 2015 10:29 PM

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Dec 21, 2015 8:13 AM in response to evitasgirl

Ok, After lots of searching I finally figured out a way to do this on my own. I hope it works for what you're wanting as well...

I had to do it in Safari in my gmail account (if you're not using gmail maybe this works elsewhere, maybe not). Select the message you want to print and click the print button. This will open in a new tab/window. Now, right click on the Gmail logo or the header and select "Inspect Element." Here you can open each drop down arrow and mouse over all of the segments. When the Gmail logo and the other header items are highlighted right click and select "Delete Node."

After this, I used CMD+P and then saved as a PDF for printing later, but I'm sure you could just print from here directly since you should have a print preview.

It didn't end up perfect for me because I couldn't eliminate the border lines, but everything else was gone so it was much better.

I hope this helps!

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