Muttprint -- User's guide

Bernhard Walle

Version 0.72

2003-04-04


Table of Contents
1. About Muttprint
2. Installation
2.1. System requirements
2.2. Installation of the files on your computer
2.2.1. Manual installation
2.2.2. Installation of the packages
2.3. Integration of Muttprint in mail and news clients
2.3.1. Mutt
2.3.2. Slrn
2.3.3. XFMail
2.3.4. Pine
2.3.5. Sylpheed
2.3.6. Gnus
2.3.7. Exmh
2.3.8. Other mail clients
3. Configuration
3.1. The configuration file
3.1.1. Printer
3.1.2. Printing command
3.1.3. Penguin
3.1.4. Printing of X-Faces
3.1.5. Duplex printing
3.1.6. Paper save mode
3.1.7. Date
3.1.8. Format of printed mail addresses
3.1.9. Printing speed
3.1.10. Font
3.1.11. Font size
3.1.12. Formatting of the mail body
3.1.13. Margin settings
3.1.14. Wrapping long lines
3.1.15. Rules under/over head- and footline
3.1.16. Design of the first pages
3.1.17. Paper format
3.1.18. Cut signature
3.1.19. Omit quoting
3.1.20. Printed headers
3.1.21. Own LaTeX code
3.1.22. Printing in the background
3.1.23. Error messages
3.2. Command line options
3.3. Different languages
3.3.1. Overview
3.3.2. Translation file
4. Known Bugs
5. Notes
5.1. Author, License
5.2. Download
5.3. Printing of attachments
5.4. Thanks

1. About Muttprint

The printing of mails from Mutt (and lots of other mail clients) is done as ``plain text''. Normally, that's enough, but in my opinion it's not so beautiful like a formatted printing, e. g. from Netscape.

Another fact disturbed me: The printing contains all displayed header information. I've configured Mutt that it displays things like "X-Mailer", but I don't want to print this. XFMail is quite worse: It prints all header information, so the printing is in my opinion unusable.

Sometime I had the idea to write a script myself, which creates a nice printing. And here's the result. I think it looks quite better than plain ASCII text and is comparable with the printing of well-known mail clients under Microsoft Windows.