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Zbigniew Minciel commented on PDFBOX-5445:
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Thanks for taking time to reply. Actually concatenating mails for printing is
the default options. It was not working as well as printing each mail to
separate PDF file and merging via PdfBox application. Lately I made progress
to resolve observed issue. I will keep support for merging mails via PDFBox
since solution is more reliable. I would say that at this point the capability
I requested are nice to have.
Mails are typically not simple text blocks but rather simple or complex HTML
blocks. The challenge is to make sure they are separated from each other and
the mail meta data doesn't affect all mails. Typical problem was too small font
size across all mails. Lately I encapsulated each mail as <article>HTML
mail</article> and figured out why the font size was affected across all or
some emails. MBox Viewer relies on Edge or Chrome or legacy Internet Browser
or free wkhtmltopdf to convert HTML to PDF. Observed issues:
# Words longer than page line (typically hyperlinks). Edge or Chrome Browser
would attempt to fit the long word on a single line by selecting smaller font
size. Unfortunately this will affect all fonts within the mail and all mails.
# Mails may contain <pre></pre> single or multiple line text blocks. Long
text lines were causing the same issue as in 1.
# Inline images with width longer than the page width were causing the same
issue as in 1.
Resolving the above cases helped to eliminate "small font size" issue. But
there could be other issues I am not aware and therefore I will keep support
for PdfBox options.
> Add command line options to accept file containing list of files to merge
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> Key: PDFBOX-5445
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5445
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0 PDFBox
> Environment: windows 11, 10
> Reporter: Zbigniew Minciel
> Priority: Major
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> Users of free MBox Mail Viewer require to export hundreds of emails into PDF
> and merge them into a single PDF document. Due to command line length
> limitations, smaller subsets of PDF mails have to be merged first and merge
> again multiple times. Merging must preserve order of emails. Option to accept
> a file containing a list of PDF files to merge would be very helpful.
> Another very useful option would be suppress "Page Break" at the end of PDF
> document to allow multiple small emails to fit on a page. Frequently, emails
> within the same thread are small.
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