[MlMt] Automatically print to PDF

[Philip Paeps]

On 2017-08-07 15:32:33 (+0200), Benny Kjær Nielsen 
<mailinglist at freron.com> wrote:
> On 27 Jul 2017, at 11:06, Esteban Umerez wrote:
>> Is there a way to automate the saving to pdf part? I’m thinking 
>> about this: I tag a message with a tag like ‘Print’, on received 
>> messages or even while I’m writing a new draft, and that tag 
>> triggers some script that opens the Print dialogue and saves the 
>> message to PDF, in my Actions Folder.
>>
>> Is there anyone who knows if this is possible or has some similar 
>> workflow? Maybe a mailbox Rule that watches for tags and runs a 
>> command?
>
> It would certainly be possible to create a bundle command which is 
> executed when adding a tag, but the hard part is to automate the 
> printing. That is, you can easily send a file to printing using the 
> `lp` command, but you first need to convert the `.eml` file to 
> something nicer like the `pdf` file generated by MailMate before 
> printing. So, the missing feature you need is to be able to tell 
> MailMate to export a `.pdf` file instead of the raw `.eml` file. 
> Alternatively, see if you can locate some third party command to do 
> this conversion.

[enscript](https://www.gnu.org/software/enscript/) is a good tool for 
this.  I would love to be able to pipe email from MailMate to 
``enscript`` for printing!

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information
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