Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> terje wrote:
>> flyguy wrote:
>>> terje wrote:
>>>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>>>> terje wrote:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Using SeaMonkey 1.1.14 email client, I tried to save a MS created
>>>>>> rich message as .eml file. The messages contained embedded images
>>>>>> which first was displayed correct in SM. But after saving to
>>>>>> file.eml and loading the file in SM next, there was only a text
>>>>>> reference ole0.bmp and the image was gone. Tried also to force
>>>>>> file type .html without more success.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How to possibly save a rich message with embedded images to a file
>>>>>> with images correctly? Isn't that possible?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rgds,
>>>>>> Terje J. Hanssen
>>>>>
>>>>> when saving, try clicking on the drop down and save as html, then
>>>>> don't forget to remove the eml from the name.  Did that work?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I expect you mean what I already also had tried:
>>>> SM File>Save as>File
>>>> Save as type: Dropdown - html
>>>> and remove eml from the name
>>>>
>>>> 1) No; opening this file.html from Seamonkey or from Firefox holds
>>>> only a text reference ole0.bmp and no image visible.
>>>>
>>>> 2) The same happends if I right click on file.html or file.eml and
>>>> select Open with>Seamonkey from the context menu.
>>>>
>>>> 3) But I found out one way it works:
>>>> If I spesifically starts the Semonkey Email client and use
>>>> File>Open_File and select file.eml, then the image is displayed
>>>> correct in the message.
>>>>
>>>> The task still is to save it as a file.html so that it can be loaded
>>>> in a web browser or OpenOffice.org to export it as pdf.
>>>
>>> If you use a free PDF printer driver like CutePDF (cutepdf.com), you
>>> can "print" directly to PDF from SM, or from any other program that
>>> can print, for that matter.
>>
>> Yes, I forgot that option which I use sometimes. As I already had
>> Adobe Acrobat 5 on Windows (icluded Destiller and PDFWriter), I tested
>> the latter from SM on Windows and it worked.
>>
>> But on Linux? I just installed PDFedit, but it doesn't look to work
>> like a printer, just as a standalone application. Maybe Cups-pdf is a
>> workable solution?
>>
>> But of interest, can't also Seamonkey write to PDF files in the same
>> way that Firefox does?
> 
> FF isn't an email program, and no it doesn't write to pdf file.  Either
> you have a FF addon installed, or you have something installed to your OS
> 

If this really is from an installed FF addon, I can't remember it(?)
File > Print > Print to file
 select 'Print to file' output format PDF (instead of PS default)

By the way, here is a screen shot
http://bildr.no/view/360253

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