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How to Save Email with Attachments into One PDF Using Attachment Names as Bookmarks

2PDF allows you to convert an Outlook email message file (MSG, EML) to a PDF. In addition, the resulting PDF file can contain bookmarks to help you navigate to each attachment in the "Bookmarks" (or "Table of Contents") section. Bookmark names will correspond to the attachment names.

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How to save an email with attachments as a PDF with bookmarks

  1. Open 2PDF Settings with this command:

    2PDF.exe -ini

  2. Navigate to Advanced Settings and locate the PDF settings (Attachments → Convert attachments → Output formats → PDF);
  3. Add macro {*SrcFileName} for the New file bookmarks title template setting. You can insert it manually or click the {=} icon and choose Filename → Source file name;
  4. Click OK to save changes and close 2PDF Settings;

  5. Run the conversion command. For example, use this command to convert a file called "Email.msg":

    2PDF.exe -src "C:\In\Email.msg" -dst "C:\Out" -pdf multipage:append combine:{containername}.pdf

Note: The macro {containername} for the combine: parameter will keep the original email file's name. 

For source (-src), you can use different file mask filters: 

  • "C:\In\Email.msg" – to specify a particular file "Email.msg"
  • "C:\In\*.msg" – to specify any .msg files contained in the "In" folder
  • "C:\In\*.eml" – to specify any .eml files contained in the "In" folder
  • "C:\In\*.*" – to specify all files contained in the "In" folder
  • "C:\In\Email.msg" "C:\In\Email.eml" – to indicate 2 files that need conversion

As a result, 2PDF will create a single PDF document with a bookmarks navigation panel showing the original email filename and attachment names:

Save email as PDF with bookmarks section

How to merge multiple EML or MSG email files into a PDF with bookmarks

  1. Open 2PDF Settings with this command:

    2PDF.exe -ini

  2. Navigate to Advanced Settings and locate the PDF settings (Attachments → Convert attachments → Output formats → PDF)
  3. Add macro {*SrcFileName} in the New file bookmarks title template setting field. You can add it manually or click the {=} icon and choose Filename → Source file name;
    How to merge multiple EML or MSG email files into a PDF with bookmarks
  4. Click OK to save and close 2PDF Settings

  5. Run the conversion command. For example, use this command:

    2PDF.exe -src "C:\Emails\*.*" -dst "C:\Out" -pdf multipage:append combine:"my multipage.pdf"

If you want to set a particular order in which files will be converted (e.g., by name or date), add the -options sort parameter to the command line. For example: 

2PDF.exe -src "C:\Emails\*.*" -dst "C:\Out" -pdf multipage:append combine:"my multipage.pdf" -options sort:date

As a result, 2PDF will combine all files from your source folder and convert it into a single PDF document. The PDF will include a navigation panel with bookmarks showing the original email filenames and attachment names.

Output PDF with emails and attachments and bookmarks