From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 Description of problem: I've tried without success to add a "pdf printer" using cups (i'm talking about a virtual printer that creates pdf files). I've seen that kde has by default a pdf printer, so please add one for gnome too. Thanks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. n/a 2. 3. Additional info:
Need more information about what behaviour is needed. For instance, what should happen to PDFs that get created?
after the print command from an application the pdf writer virtual printer should open a file requester, asking the name of the pdf file to be created. this is the normal behaviour under windows (if you install programs like fineprint pdf factory) and many users are expecting that it works this way (which is quite intuitive, imho). thanks.
That's not something you want on the CUPS server end then.
*** Bug 109849 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think this is a great feature to have. Since an interactive GUI might not be easy/possible, I recommend saving the pdf files in the home directory. The basic concept is similar to the printer tray. When you print to a physical printer, pages stack up in the tray. When you print to virtual pdf printer, files sequence in your home directory. I would extend this concept to allow filename configuration via the printer configuration. PDF file name: [] date [] time [] application
At least FC3 includes "Create a PDF document" in the print dialog, and the filename can be chosen via the "Location" option. Seems sufficient to me.