PDF Export writes messages in reverse order

[tripleee]

It doesn't seem to matter how I arrange the message view -- the PDF export writes them from newest to oldest, rather than the opposite. This is easy to fix if you are moderately computer literate, but a weird quirk which should hopefully not be too hard to fix.

(Giving the messages a sane naming structure would also help. It seems that the message's index number within the folder is the last component of the filename before the .pdf extension.)

[tripleee]

In case you are not moderately computer literate, try something like

for msg in ./*.pdf; do
    idx=${msg##*-}
    idx=${idx%.pdf}
    printf -v new "%05i-%s.pdf" "$idx" "${msg%-$idx.pdf}"
    echo mv "$msg" "$new"
done

Assuming you only have PDF files in the current directory which adhere to the expected naming convention, this should update their names to move the message index to the beginning of the file name, zero-padded to five digits.

The echo prevents the rename from actually doing anything -- take it out if the results look reasonable.

This should work in Bash, i.e. on Mac and Linux and other U*x. If you are a Windows victim, I can only offer my condolences.

[cleidigh]

@tripleee
Under the filename option section you can set 3 message items to be included in the filename.
You can move the index to the front of the filename in this fashion. Is that a partial solution?
I am not sure I have the control the write order
@cleidigh

[tripleee]

Not really, though it's nice to have control over that of course. Does it make the message index zero-padded so the messages sort correctly out of the box?

[cleidigh]

@tripleee
check out #75
will the full formatting help in your issue?