Archiving entourage emails as pdf with applescript

Hello, I would like to archive all my emails in a flexible format that doesnt need entourage to read them. I would like to save all my emails in entourage to PDF. does anyone have a script that can do this? I can do this individaully by just selecting 'print' on each email and the selecting save as PDF but this is very time consuming!!! smile
I would also like to find a script that can save all my attachments on my emails in entourage to a folder!
Can anyone help!!!
Thank you for your time
Kindest Regards
Carl

While PDF is cross-platform, I'm not quite sure how "flexible" it is.
I would suggest you do use Entourage's format because it is flexible. By this I mean that if you drag a message out of the Entourage window onto your Desktop then the file that it creates is in .mbox format. This format is an Internet standard (see Wikipedia for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox).
If you really want to stick with a "flexible" file format, consider plain text or maybe RTF. Most any text editor such as MS Word, TextEdit or BBEdit will still be able to open these files in the future.
Hope this helps! bill
1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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Archiveing entourage emails as pdf with applescript

Hello, I would like to archive all my emails in a flexible format that doesnt need entourage to read them. I would like to save all my emails in entourage to PDF. does anyone have a script that can do this? I can do this individaully by just selecting 'print' on each email and the selecting save as PDF but this is very time consuming!!! smile
I would also like to find a script that can save all my attachments on my emails in entourage to a folder!
Can anyone help!!!
Thank you for your time
Kindest Regards
Carl

While PDF is cross-platform, I'm not quite sure how "flexible" it is.
I would suggest you do use Entourage's format because it is flexible. By this I mean that if you drag a message out of the Entourage window onto your Desktop then the file that it creates is in .mbox format. This format is an Internet standard (see Wikipedia for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox).
If you really want to stick with a "flexible" file format, consider plain text or maybe RTF. Most any text editor such as MS Word, TextEdit or BBEdit will still be able to open these files in the future.
Hope this helps! bill
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