Turn Emails into PDFs on an iPad

Video Description

In this video, I’ll show you how to quickly turn an email, or really anything printable, into a PDF on your iPad. Please subscribe and leave comments below! **** A transcript follows. More transcripts can be found at www.marblejar.net. **** Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video I’ll show you how to quickly turn an email, or really anything printable, into a PDF on your iPad. Occasionally, I need to turn an email or photo into a PDF. Maybe I need to upload it to Google Drive or draw on it. There are workarounds for photos. If your email isn’t long, you can use one of those workarounds. But for long emails, if I try to cut and paste the email into a PDF creating app and the formatting turns whacky, up until now I’ve been out of luck. I finally stumbled onto a hidden solution for this. See the problem is that the native iPad email app doesn’t give you a share button. So, say you have a long email with a bunch of formatting like this one. You want to turn it into a PDF so that you can mark it up or save it or whatever. If you try to copy and paste into Notability for example, you lose all of the images and formatting. And it’s is too long to do with a bunch of screen shots. Here’s what you do: * Go to your email and push the arrow button * Now choose Print * This seems like a dead end because there are only 3 options, but check this out . . . * Use 2 fingers to pinch open the print preview image and look what happens! This is actually now a PDF AND you now have a share button and you can use to email it, upload it to a cloud service or save it to your iPad. Or you can open it in another app to mark it up as a PDF. This works for photos too and any other app that doesn’t allow sharing, but DOES allow printing. Let me know what you think! Comments are always appreciated and thanks for watching!