Description of problem: When I go to print a document, almost all of the printers listed do not allow you to print to a file. The only ones that allow printing to a file are "Generic Postscript" and "Create a PDF Document". All the other printers have not options at Locations. This seems odd as programs like firefox do allow you to print to a file using the same printer. This is probably a bug in gnome-print or something like that, but it is hard to tell who the real culprit is. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-core-2.0.2-5.7.2 printman-0.0.1-2.20021202.17 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open a document 2.Try to print 3. Actual results: No option to print to a file Expected results: Should be possible. Additional info: Most of the printers I have available to me are web discovered printers. There is, however, one printer managed with HPLIP, but not connected at the time, and another that is managed by Lexmark's Java based printer software. Neither of these allow printing to file either.
OOo uses the gnome-print dialog, so the same behaviour is found in all such gnome-printui using GNOME apps, e.g. gedit. So not a OOo bug/problem. There is apparently a new GTK print dialog in the works, so the gnome-print one will be redundant soon in favour the new one. caolanm->alexl: feature-request for the new gtk print dialog to be able to choose "print to file" for all printers.
Not really a bug and I am not even sure it is that useful a feature. If you want this feature in the new print dialog going into GTK+ (which will eventually be added to OOo) I suggest descussing it on the gtk+ devel list.
This is definitely an important feature because: (1) every other operating system I have ever used allows it, (2) Generate PDF currently has problems with embedded EPS images, so the only way to get decent output is to generate a postscript version and (3) this is absolutely necessary for generating publication quality figures. This last point is really important. A lot of linux users are in academia and they need to make high quality figures. Often PS is the only acceptable format. OpenOffice + export to PS file was an excellent way to do this before the new printing dialogue took this feature away.