Comment 12 for bug 134671
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| Peter Würtz (pwuertz) wrote Re: [Tribe5] cups-pdf do not overwrite existing pdf | #12 |
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I just learned about the new PDF printing feature in 7.10. When I printed my first PDF from firefox, I just sat there waiting for some kind of confirmation of the printing process... but nothing happens... after a few moments I thought "hey, maybe the PDF has already been saved to the desktop", but nothing there... I checked the cups logfiles for any errors and so on... it took some minutes to accidentally find out that my pdfs have been saved to ~/PDF
What I'm trying to tell is that the pdf printing option requires a standard "save-file as..." dialog. The current solution is misleading and broken. One can see this by reading the discussion about possible workarounds for yet simple and common situations as described above.
Right now, printing to PDF in gutsy is not satisfactory. There must be a way to ask the user what to do and to inform about the result of a printing job. Even without a "Save As..." dialog, a simple "The file has been saved to ~/PDF/xxx.pdf" message would be enough to clear things up. The user will know about the location and the name of the PDF, and he/she will learn about the behavior regarding the replacement of files.