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19Nov2019 save .eml as pdf

>> Screen capture gives crappy resolution and five times he file size.
For income taxes, just keep as .eml format, and hope that Canada Revenue Agnecy can read it!

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1150626
How to convert SAVED .eml file to .pdf?
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After some further research: the best workaround for this issue for me (using Ubuntu 14.04 and Thunderbird 45.5.1) seems to be to simply open the .eml file with Libre Office Writer and then print with CUPS-pdf printer. I also found that opening with a text editor like Gedit (native to Ubuntu) or Notepad worked pretty much the same. I can also open the .eml file in Thunderbird and then go to “Message” on the toolbar and then “Edit As New Message” to get the email, but when I print it, I only get the body of the message and nothing else (like From: To: Subject, Time etc).

More study revealed that Thunderbird messages saved as .eml files are actually MHTML format (short for MIME HTML). To then convert them to .pdf one needs a printer that is capable of doing that. Apparently there is a shareware pdf printer called “novapdf” that will create .pdf from MHTML in various versions of Windows, but not in Linux distros. Trying to find the Linux equivalent of “novapdf” might be an exercise in futility. For me, the workaround above will be just fine and equals SOLVED. 

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