Export Mail messages as PDF - missing extension

When exporting messages as PDF files, the resulting files don't seem to become proper PDF files. They show up as some generic file, illegible for Quick View and ignored by many applications as being a PDF. Forcing applications to open them as a PDF reveals that there's nothing wrong inside of it. So all it needs is a correct extension (whether or not it is shown). Adding the ".pdf" extension manually or by some batch conversion utility, immediately renders the PDF correctly.

I figured it out.
There was a setting in my pdf that had adobe layers on. I turned it off.
All good now!

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