CUPS-PDF folder
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups-pdf (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Rolf Leggewie |
Bug Description
CUPS-PDF saves the printed pdf files by default to a folder created to your home directory. In my opinion, CUPS-PDF should always ask to which folder the created pdf file should be saved to. In addition, the user should be able to choose a name for the created file.
I see this as an issue of productivity. Of course we all have created lots of folders to sort our data. Of course, I wish to save my printed pdf files to certain folders somewhere in my folder tree. In other words, the default folder mentioned above is not the final place of any of my files. I doubt that practically all users wish to move files from the default folder to a specific folder as decided on a case by case method depending on the subject of the printed document.
So, if CUPS-PDF would always ask where to save the pdf file, we would save _lots_ of mouse clicks. I mean, We would not have to manually move the pdf file from one folder to another if we simply could decide where to save the file in the first place.
In addition, CUPS-PDF does not even ask a name for the created file. Therefore, it sometimes takes some time to find the freshly created from the default folder if there are other pdf files too. Therefore, CUPS-PDF should also let the user give a name to the printed document.
Hope that you get the idea :-)
Changed in cups-pdf: | |
status: | Won't Fix → New |
CUPS-PDF is a printer driver. It is not a graphic application or a component of the GNOME, KDE or XFCE desktop. Thus, there will never be such a Save As dialog.
Instead, the output directory and file naming policy is controlled by a global configuration file for all users. One caveat on Ubuntu is that the output directory cannot be changed without first modifying the AppArmor rule for CUPS to allow CUPS-PDF to write to the new location.