Migrate old Outlook PDF archives to PDF Portfolios

It’s a good idea to migrate old PDF email archives to PDF Portfolios for the following reasons: to facilitate sorting and other functions, and to make it possible to add new email messages to those archives.

In PDF Portfolios, each email message is converted as a component PDF. You can then sort the messages by message folder, sender, subject line, date, size, or attachments. Also, you can create custom categories and sort by those categories.

If you open email archives created with Acrobat 7.0 or earlier, you must create an archive and append the selected messages to the new archive. A wizard guides you through the process.

  1. Open Outlook.
  2. Choose Adobe PDF > Upgrade Acrobat 7 PDF Archive.
  3. If a message appears, click Yes to continue the migration process.
  4. Locate and select the old PDF archive, and click Open.
  5. Select a location and name for the migrated PDF Portfolio, and click Save. (The default naming adds _Portfolio to the existing filename, such as renaming an archive called Inbox.pdf as Inbox_Portfolio.pdf.)

When the conversion process is complete and the Creating Adobe PDF dialog box closes, the new archive opens in Acrobat.