Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF

Posted: 10-20-2008, 08:47 AM
I'm pretty late to the topic but am having the same issue like Keith.
Using the latest Mail.app i need to compile roughly 1900 emails that are collected in a 'Smart Folder' into a sinlge PDF file.

Keith, if you are still reading this, I would love to hear how you ended up solving this.

Jannis
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keithdvo@adobeforums.com
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Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF
Posted: 10-20-2008, 12:46 PM
I have never solved the problem. In fact, I'm having a hard time with Acrobat on OS X because I always lose the links when I try to print something to the Acrobat PDF printer. Sigh....

Keith
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Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF
Posted: 10-20-2008, 12:47 PM
>. In fact, I'm having a hard time with Acrobat on OS X because I always lose the links when I try to print something to the Acrobat PDF printer.

You will always lose links when you print to the PDF printer.

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Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF
Posted: 10-20-2008, 01:47 PM
OK - here's what I did recently ..

Highlighted the relevant emails
go File / Save Attachments /
Saved into a specific folder
(Acrobat 9) - Create PDF Portfolio
Added files to make one document
(you could also choose PDF Package in a similar way for Acrobat 8)

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Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF
Posted: 10-20-2008, 01:48 PM
Yeah; I should know that. I have been so used to printing from Windows where I had the PDF button in Word. Annoying. I wish I could keep the links live.

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Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF
Posted: 10-20-2008, 02:07 PM
Jon,

Thank you, but I'm not trying to save attachments; I'm trying to save the emails themselves. If I highlight them and click File, Save Attachments is greyed out.

Still, maybe I can export them and grab them from within Acrobat and see if the links remain. I'll try that. Till now, I've just been printing to the Acrobat PDF which as I've noted, removes the links.

Thank you!

Keith
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Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF
Posted: 10-20-2008, 02:11 PM
DRAT! That was a huge failure: I exported five test messages and saved them as an .rtf. I then went to Create PDF From FIle, but got an error that says "Acrobat could not open "test.rtf" because it is not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged…."

Dang.
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Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF
Posted: 10-20-2008, 03:43 PM
You have to save as a Word .doc file not .rtf. then open the files in in word and convert to pdf's from with in Word2008
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Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF
Posted: 10-20-2008, 04:16 PM
Thank you for that suggestion. Sadly (?), I don't own Word. I decided when I bought my Mac this past May that I was going to leave behind as much as possible the World of Windows. (Now, I still like Windows for some things—I even installed Vista x64 with Fusion—I just wanted my Mac to be Mac, as it were.)

What I originally did was highlight a group of emails and hit Command-P. I'm trying to remember now what happened: Doing it that way lost either the links, or attachments; I can't recall. And moving them to TextEdit did the opposit: kept what was lost, and lost what was kept. I should try again.

Bottom line, I don't want to use Mail.app's archive. I just want to move the emails from Mail.app to a searchable PDF.

Perhaps the Perfect is the enemy of the Good here. I miss the Acrobat Email-to-PDF in Outlook for Windows. Sigh....

Keith
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Re: Print Multiple Mail App Emails as One PDF
Posted: 10-20-2008, 05:12 PM
keithdvo@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Thank you for that suggestion. Sadly (?), I don't own Word. I decided when I bought my Mac this past May that I was going to leave behind as much as possible the World of Windows. (Now, I still like Windows for some things—I even installed Vista x64 with Fusion—I just wanted my Mac to be Mac, as it were.)
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> What I originally did was highlight a group of emails and hit Command-P. I'm trying to remember now what happened: Doing it that way lost either the links, or attachments; I can't recall. And moving them to TextEdit did the opposit: kept what was lost, and lost what was kept. I should try again.
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> Bottom line, I don't want to use Mail.app's archive. I just want to move the emails from Mail.app to a searchable PDF.
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> Perhaps the Perfect is the enemy of the Good here. I miss the Acrobat Email-to-PDF in Outlook for Windows. Sigh....
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> Keith
There are other programs that can open word documents besides Word.

NeoOffice is one and Open Office is another.
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