Daniel Bauer wrote:
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:12, Basil Chupin wrote:
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 opened it by just clicking on it... But I see that the file open dialog in KGhostview seems to "see" only files with .ps extension.
I changed the extension to 'ps' and then it was "seen" and read correctly.
I did some fiddling with the extension of the test file I created.
Have you tried the .ps extension, too?
See above.
Try, I'm almost sure it's a post script file. But I give no guarantee ;-)
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.
In that preview that konquerors shows, when hovering the entry, doesn't it tell you, what kind of file it is? If you right-cklick on the file and say "open with" KGhostview, would it work? Then it *is* post script.
I am not used to Konqueror and forgot about the Properties function which showed that it is a Postscript file,
[...] 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 :-) .
Yes, I saved your message in Kmail and it's 83.5 KB. If it's a postscript file (which I still believe...) then it's logical that it's bigger, because of all the formatting etc.
Ridiculous. There has to be a control file somewhere to control what is outputted.
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 :-) .
If you want to save the files as textfies, I guess, it's better just to use "save as" (ctrl-S) than printing to a file. Then you should get a simple text-file.
Doesn't work - looked at this some time ago. This works only for a single message but if select more than one then the option to Save As>Print to File is not available.
Hope this helps...
Every little bit helps :-) . Cheers. -- "If the terrier and the bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow." George W. Bush January 2000