Re: [Evolution] exporting mails to txt or pdf

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 12:57 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 05:38 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 19:58 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 13:37 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 08:37 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 14:04 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> > > > > > I have an Evolution mail folder with lots of e-mails I would like to
> > > > > > export to some external format (txt, pdf, doc).
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > Is this possible ?
> > > > > This key had been moved to gsettings for 3.6.x, thus the command is:
> > > > >    $ gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail drag-and-drop-save-file-format 'pdf'
> > > > This would be awesome!  But I set this setting and drag a message to
> > > > nautilus -- I just get a zero sized .pdf file.
> > > > evolution-3.6.3-1.2.1.x86_64
> > > I've duplicated this behavior - 0 size PDF file - on three boxes.
> > And it persists on evolution-3.8.0 [openSUSE 12.3 w/GNOME 3.8],  I just
> > get a dot-pdf file that is zero sized.
> Filed a bug.
> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700028>

Evolution 3.8.2 was released on the openSUSE GNOME 3.8 repo.  I pulled
it and not have Evolution 3.8.2

The behavior of drag-to-pdf has changed, but it still doesn't work.

Now I get a valid PDF, with a "Page 1" at the bottom, but nothing else.
Other than the page number the created PDF is blank.