Thunderbird - Printing to File
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. -- "If the terrier and the bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow." George W. Bush January 2000
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? Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch
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
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 did some fiddling with the extension of the test file I created.
Have you tried the .ps extension, too? 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.
[...] 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.
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. Hope this helps... Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch
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
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:07, Basil Chupin wrote:
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.) [...]
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 :-) .
ok, another very little bit: I just found this (on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird ): "Mozilla Thunderbird lacks a number of features that are found in other e-mail clients: * The ability to save multiple messages to one file " Save as: Do we talk about the same "save as"? I mean: file->save as->file Ctrl+S If you highligt a message in the list and then type Ctrl+S, then it should save it as a text file. Well, you would have to do this for every single file you want to save... I use Kmail, it can save several files into one text file, but as much as I understand, this would only be useful for some archive purposes. I guess, you'd rather want single text files you can search/look at in a directory - and then saving one by one is the only method, I guess. If it's for an archive, you could always just compress the whole directory that contains your messages to a tar file (you can use Konqueror for that). Good luck :-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch
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