email to pdf – .Eml Viewer | Working with .EML Email Files

EML Viewer Pro is an file viewer for managing email messages stored as .eml files (RFC-822 format). It also opens Outlook .pst and .msg files. One of EML Viewer’s useful features is it’s ability to convert .eml files into .PDF files. This short tutorial covers the process, step by step, of how to convert email to .PDF using EML Viewer Pro.

The first step is to acquire a free trial of EML Viewer Pro (which is also marketed as Pst Viewer Pro) and then start the application.

Next, using the folder tree on the left of the main software screen, find the folder where your .eml files are located. Once you select this folder, EML Viewer Pro will read in all of your .eml files and present them in the mail list.

Search your files to locate just the .eml files that you need. Here’s an article we wrote earlier that explains how to use EML Viewer Pro’s email search function.

When the email messages that you want to convert to .PDF files are displayed in the mail list, click on one of the messages, then type CONTROL-A on your computer to select ALL messages. Now, all email messages you want to export to .pdf will all be highlighted in blue.

Select emails to convert to .pdf from the .eml mail list.

Selected email messages are highlighted in EML Viewer Pro’s Mail List window.

Now that the messages are selected, locate the Export Icon in the main toolbar and click on it.

Email Export icon in the main toolbar

Clicking on the Email Export Icon will open the Export Manager screen.

Using the drop down box in the Export Manager, select the appropriate export profile. For our purposes, we will choose “PDF-attachments converted/included.”

Email Export Manager. Select the Export Profile you want.

The “PDF – Attachments converted/included” export profile will attempt to convert the email files as part of the .PDF image. If EML Viewer Pro is not able to convert any email file attachments to PDF, then the file attachment will be embedded as a separate file within the PDF. Click “START” to begin the process.

Select a folder where EML Viewer Pro will copy PDF files it creates.

EML Viewer Pro will ask you where you want it to place the PDF files it is creating. Just select a target folder and click OK, and the export operation will proceed.

When the operation is finished, the .pdf files will be in the target folder you selected earlier. Below is an image of a .pdf file that EML Viewer Pro created, as it is displayed in Adobe PDF Reader. The top of the PDF file includes the From, Sent, Date, To and Subject fields from the .eml file, followed by the email body in either HTML or Text format.

A PDF file containing the output of the converted .eml html email messages.

A .PDF file created from a html-formatted .EML file by EML Viewer Pro

In our next article, we will look at configuring EML Viewer Pro’s PDF Export profile so that you can have more control over the formatting of the PDF’s that it creates. For example, you may want to export to European standard page formats. Until then, download and enjoy your free trial of EMLViewer Pro.

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Encryptomatic LLC, the developers of email viewing software, has released update 4.7 for both EML Viewer Pro and EML Viewer Lite. These releases include PDF Append, a new pdf management feature for people who regularly need to save .eml files or other email file types to a single pdf file.

The PDF Append capability helps you convert an individual .eml file into a new or existing pdf file. This is a useful feature if you want to create a single pdf file that contains multiple email messages. One of the use-cases for PDF Append involved a legal assistant who was given the responsibility to collect specific email communications into a single pdf file. Prior to this ability being added to EML Viewer Pro, she would export the messages individually and then use different software to merge the pdf documents into a single file, a process she found cumbersome and time consuming.

With PDF Append, she can now export these email messages to a new or existing pdf file. As the emails are discovered, she can append them to a single pdf document, with no need to run another software package.

PDF Append in EML Viewer Pro toolbar

PDF Append in EML Viewer Lite toolbar

To use this functionality, first start EML Viewer Pro or Lite and then select the folder containing your .eml files. The software can also read .msg, .mht, .ost and Outlook .pst files. Click on an email you want to export so it is highlighted in the mail list. Now, click the +PDF button and enter a name for the file. The email message will be converted to PDF.

To add another email to the PDF file you just created, follow the same process, except select the pdf file you just created as the target. The previous PDF file will be appended with your new email message.

EML Viewer Pro and Lite are very flexible email views. In addition to .eml files that are created by Outlook Express, Windows Mail and other email clients, they can also view and search Outlook .pst, .ost, and .msg files, and also .mht files. The PDF Append function works with all of the email formats supported by EML Viewer Pro and Lite.

For more information or to download a free trial of EML Viewer Pro, visit the product’s home page.

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