Converting email files to PDF

Convert email messages to PDF when you need standardized records for archiving, legal review, and compliance workflows. PDF output preserves message content in a format you can store, review, and share across teams.

Organizations often convert MSG and EML files to PDF for:

• Compliance archives
• Legal discovery
• Business record retention

Implement email-to-PDF conversion with the Java SDK

Nutrient Java SDK provides email-to-PDF conversion through the Document API.

You don’t need to build:

• Custom email parsing logic
• External conversion pipelines
• Format-specific rendering code

Prepare the project

Define a package and class:

package io.nutrient.Sample;

Import required SDK classes:

import io.nutrient.sdk.Document;
import io.nutrient.sdk.exceptions.NutrientException;

public class EmailToPDF {

Create a main method. This example declares NutrientException in the method signature:

    public static void main(String[] args) throws NutrientException {

Open the email file

Use Document.open(...) inside a try-with-resources statement(opens in a new tab) so Java closes resources automatically:

        try (Document document = Document.open("input.msg")) {

Use an absolute path or a path relative to the working directory. The SDK supports MSG and EML input.

Export to PDF

Call exportAsPdf(...) to create the output file:

            document.exportAsPdf("output.pdf");
        }
    }
}

Handle errors

Nutrient Java SDK raises NutrientException when an operation fails. You can:

• Declare it in the method signature, as shown above
• Catch it with try/catch if you need custom error handling

Summary

The conversion flow has two steps:

1. Open the email file.
2. Export it as PDF.

Download this sample package to run the example locally.