How to save search results from Gmail into a pdf file?
Sometimes you may do searches
on Google for others to help them. After perfecting your search, you may arrive
a decent set of highly relevant results. A print out of that result-page will
be useful to your friend for follow up and further exploration. I will describe
the process of doing it briefly now.
Chrome browser has a built-in
print routine. You can access it by Right-click of the mouse. One of the
options under Print is Save as PDF. That’s it. Your job is done!
You may use the same trick to
print out results of search in Gmail also. Here the search could be as
sophisticated as you can frame the search query. After performing a search, you
may manually select only highly relevant ones distributed over many screens.
When you print the results, attachments will also get printed. You may limit the
results by label, date (time frame), subject line etc.
One advantage of the printed
pdf file is that the hyperlinks will work in pdf too. Since the query string
that fetched the suitable results is also shown, the recipient can repeat the
same search for updated results.
This story has explained a “not
so openly noticeable feature” of print option. Please pass on the tip to
someone who may need it.
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