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  <info>
    <desc>Converting emails into PDF files.</desc>
    
    <link type="guide" xref="index#common-mail-problems" />

    <revision pkgversion="3.5.90" version="0.2" date="2012-08-16" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

</info>

<title>Save messages as PDF</title>

<p>In order to save emails in the PDF file format, select <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Print</gui></guiseq> and then choose <gui>Print to File</gui>. See <link href="help:gnome-help/printing">the desktop help</link> for general information on printing.</p>

<note style="advanced">
<p>You can also export messages as PDF by dragging and dropping them to the file manager, instead of dropping them in mbox (text) format by default.</p>
<list>
<item><p>Open the <app>Terminal</app> application.</p></item>
<item><p>Run the command <cmd>gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail drag-and-drop-save-file-format 'pdf'</cmd></p></item>
</list>
<p>You can also use the <app>dconf-editor</app> application to do this.</p>
</note>
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