Daniel Bauer wrote:
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 13:59, Basil Chupin wrote:
When I try to Print to File messages in Thunderbird (official release, 1.5.07, or the latest daily v2 beta) all I get in the output file is 'garbage' in the form of the print control and type of font characters- no text at all. (The printer is a Lexmark 4039 12R Plus and is using cups and printing to this is not a problem.)
Anyone, please, have any ideas if this is a bug in TB or is Print to File somehow being sabotaged by cups or something else I am not aware of?
Cheers.
When I print to file it saves a postscript file, not a text file (well, it's kind of text, too ...).
Can you view the 'garbage' in (K)ghostview?
No, Kghostviewer doesn't even "see" the file in the directory (nor other similar files for that matter). I did some fiddling with the extension of the test file I created. If I don't give it an extension or give extensions of 'doc', 'lst', xxx' then Konqueror *does* display the message as it should appear. If I give it an extension of 'txt' then Konqueror and Open Office see it as "garbage". An extension of 'odf' forces Open Office to open it and OO sees is as garbage. An extension of 'asc' gets GPG all excited and it comes up, all breathless, stating that it cannot decrypt this file! :-) . Now, all this is telling me that there is something amiss because I remember printing hundreds of messages to file and then simply looking at them with a simple text editor. Another thing, the test message I used is your message (above). How big is your message? 2KB, but it came out 58.5KB from Print to File :-) . I have hundreds of messages saved which I would like to print to file and store them and at this conversion rate I would need another large HD :-) . Cheers. -- "If the terrier and the bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow." George W. Bush January 2000