Convert MSG to PDF

What is a .msg file?

A .msg file is a single email saved by Microsoft Outlook. You get one when someone uses File > Save As in Outlook, or drags a message out of Outlook onto the desktop or into a folder. People often send them on as attachments, or keep them as records.

Without Outlook, a .msg file is hard to open: most other mail programs read the standard .eml format instead. This viewer reads .msg directly.

How to convert MSG to PDF

1. Drop the .msg file onto the box at the top of this page, or click Choose files. Several files at once are fine.
2. Check the email. You see the subject, from, to, cc, date and the message. With several files, click one in the list to read it.
3. Click Save as PDF. A print-ready view opens and your browser's print dialog appears.
4. Pick PDF as the destination. Chrome and Edge: Destination > Save as PDF. Firefox: Save to PDF. Safari on a Mac: the PDF button at the bottom-left, then Save as PDF.
5. Download the attachments with Download all (ZIP), or one by one.

To put many messages in one file, click Save all as one PDF. The emails are printed in date order, oldest first, each starting on a new page.

MSG to PDF with attachments: what you get

Here is exactly what ends up where, so there are no surprises:

• In the PDF: the header block (subject, from, to, cc, date), the message, and a list of every attachment by name. Picture attachments (JPEG, PNG, GIF) are printed as images after that list.
• Not in the PDF: other attachments, such as Word files, spreadsheets or PDFs. They aren't embedded inside the PDF.
• Downloaded separately: those attachments, in their original format, with one click on Download all (ZIP). Keep the ZIP next to the PDF and you have the complete email.

Emails attached inside the .msg (an .msg inside an .msg, or a forwarded message) can be opened in the viewer and saved as PDF in the same way.

Use it as a .msg viewer

You don't have to make a PDF at all. To read an Outlook message without Outlook, drop it in and read. HTML emails show as they were designed, in a locked-down frame where no scripts run. Pictures loaded from the internet are blocked by default, because they can be used for tracking; click Load remote images to show them. Pictures embedded in the email show normally.

Outlook messages sometimes store their text as rich text (RTF). The viewer converts it so you can read it.

Your email stays on your computer

The converter runs entirely in your browser. Your .msg files are read on your own device and are never uploaded to our server or stored. Only this page and its scripts come from us. The PDF is made by your browser's print function, on your computer.

Limits

• Complex HTML emails print the way your browser renders them; fonts follow your browser.
• Remote images only appear in the PDF if you load them before saving.
• Encrypted messages (S/MIME or PGP) aren't decrypted. Signed messages display, but the signature isn't verified.
• Password-protected attachments stay protected.
• Meeting invites show up as .ics attachments.
• Some very old or damaged files may not open.

On a Mac? See how to open .msg files on a Mac. Got a winmail.dat instead? Use the winmail.dat opener.