Convert Gmail™ to PDF (locally)

Convert your emails to PDF format locally (without a server interaction; secure and private) to backup your emails

Convert Gmail™ to PDF (locally) Firefox Add-on

The Convert Gmail™ to PDF (locally) Firefox Add-on is a secure and private plugin enabling you to back up your Gmail™ emails in PDF format instantly on your own device. The add-on offers 'simple' and 'normal' modes, removing distractions or retaining the standard format, respectively. It enables bulk conversion and even enhances the visual quality by embedding popular fonts in the PDF documents for simple printing mode. It respects user's privacy, ensuring that no external server interaction or data exchange takes place during the process.

Add-on stats

By: Ray
Users: 626
-8
Rating: 4.77
(13)
Version: 0.2.5 (Last updated: 2021-06-10)
Creation date: 2017-07-22
Weekly download count: 5
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • *://mail.google.com/*
  • downloads
Size: 4.20M
URLs: Website

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Add-on summary

This extension adds two new buttons to your Gmail interface. One orange PDF button and one blue PDF button. The orange button can be used to generate distraction-free PDF documents and the blue one generates a normal PDF document. It is also possible to press the toolbar button (action button) to convert multiple emails to PDF at once. For bulk conversion, you need to select a few threads first.

Notes:

  1. The orange button is called the "simple" mode of operation. In this mode, your emails are reformated and all the images, lines, and any other distracting elements are removed from the document before the PDF file is generated. This is useful to generate PDF for fast reading.

  2. The blue button is called the "normal" mode of operation. In this mode, the "window.print()" function is called and the generated document is in the standard format.

  3. This extension does NOT send your documents to an external server for conversion as this violates the user's privacy. The extension uses a local JavaScript library called jsPDF for all its conversions.

  4. By default, no image is attached to your document if the "simple" mode is selected so that there would be no image fetching from remote servers.

For more info please visit: https://add0n.com/to-pdf.html?from=gmail To report bugs please visit: https://github.com/ray-lothian/to-pdf/issues

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User reviews

Love this extension, as it saves so much time (particularly the simple print mode) but currently neither button are showing, even with a fresh install of firefox and the extension. Hopefully it's just a bug that gets fixed in an update!
by Local 5, 2023-11-09
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Convert Gmail™ to PDF (locally) requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Convert Gmail™ to PDF (locally) has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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