RE: [Evolution] Printing to an ascii text file

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I woudl suggest adding a wishlist bug to bugzilla.ximian.com.

I still don't think using printing is the way to achieve this, being
able to pipe the message to a script via a button/etc is pretty useful
though.

On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 15:59, Jim George wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 04:56, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 21:08, Not Zed wrote:
> > > Could also try cut and paste.
> > > 'printing to a text file' is not a normal 'printing' operation.
> >
> > Or even just file... save as...
> Thanks all for your replies, obviously I hadn't explained my requirements ;)
>
> I know that all these things are possible, however I have an application
> called 'festival' that reads documents for you, or reads from stdin. 
> What I had hoped to do was 'read' my email (a brilliant application for
> the sight impaired I'm sure you'll all agree).
>
> My problem is that my mail client of choice (Evolution) only prints in
> Postscript format which results in festival spewing lots of '%%' and
> other punctuation marks.
>
> I've tried piping it through gs but the only real success I've had so
> far is cut 'n' paste or save as, neither of which are as easy to
> automate as Print.
>
> I realise my requirement is fairly specialist so if it's not to be then
> it's not to be. 
>
> BTW I've just achieved exactly this requirement in 30 seconds using
> Pine.
>
> Thanks anyway,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
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