Can't configure virtual printer

[whitis]

Binary package hint: system-config-printer

system-config-printer doesn't let you create a virtual printer that isn't associated with a particular port. For example, a generic postscript or generic pdf printer that always prints to a file (i.e. actually trying to spool isn't possible). You can select LPT#1 and create a generic postscript printer, but there is no option to disassociate it from the parallel port.
Under other, you can enter URI file://dev/null but you get CUPS server error "client-error-not-possible"

There is no generic/PDF.

With the newer gnome apps and firefox, you don't need this (too much) as postscript/pdf file printing is built into the print dialog but other applications still need it as you used a printer definition to select the format to print to file. Open Office is an example (though it does have an export to PDF option that others may lack).

Once you have created a printer (using LPT#1), you can't delete it: CUPS server error: client-error-not-found. But once you have deleted, it doesn't show up to be chosen as a print destination but still shows up in printer configuration (until you exit and reload). And when you create another similarly named printer, it adds a "2" to the end.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog: E [27/Apr/2009:18:32:38 -0400] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Lpstat: device for ML-1710: usb://Samsung/ML-1710
MachineType:

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: system-config-printer-gnome 1.1.3+git20090218-0ubuntu19
PackageArchitecture: all
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles: ML-1710: Samsung ML-1710, SpliX V. 2.0.0
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=a4fc983e-7fb5-4c68-9b5f-030750075a8b ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic
SourcePackage: system-config-printer

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Whitis,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with the system-config-printer package. You made this bug report in 2009 and Ubuntu and the system-config-printer package have been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know and, in the current version, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 368306
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
G
[Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager]

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