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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
