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| Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote Re: [Usability] The PDF export implementation in UI is not good | #1 |
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This cannot be fixed by modifying the cups-pdf package. cups-pdf does nothing more than providing a print queue which generates PDF files instead of sending the job to an actual printer. As it provides a print queue, you will only have a "print to PDF". Yo get an "export to PDF" (like in OpenOffice.org: "File" -> "Export to PDF ...") the individual applications need to be modified. Application developers have to add the "Export to PDF ..." function which generates a PDF from the current document and lets the user save it with the usual "Save as ..." dialog (as OpenOffice.org does). cups-pdf is an interim solution for the time being until all applications have an "Export to PDF ..." function.
PDF generators will be added to all applications sooner or later anyway as it was agreed on on the Printing Summit in April 2006 in Atlanta that PDF will replace PostScript as standard print job format. So it is no bg deal to add an "Export to PDF ..." function.
The best way to solve this is to add the PDF generating functionality to the desktop libraries (Cairo, GTK, Qt, ...) and to add a common PDF generator dialog which gets linked to the application via Portland/XDG. All this has to come from upstream. It cannot be solved by the Ubuntu packaging.