Ubuntu
cupsys package

  1. Bug #147551
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 147551

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote : Re: [Bug 147551] Re: cups-pdf fails to generate file

On 10/4/07, Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have withdrawn the proposed fix of moving the output to the ~/Desktop
> directory (and allowing cups-pdf to write to there) as this will have
> several problem.

Agreed.

> cups-pdf is an interim solution for all the apps which did not yet adopt
> the latest printing dialogs (especially Firefox and Thunderbird). So we
> will remove cups-pdf from Ubuntu as soon as all apps have caught up. In
> the mean time we will only sync with upstream and fix bugs.

Actually, no. CUPS-PDF fulfills a much bigger role than playing
stop-gap for applications not integrated with GNOME or KDE. It's also
extremely useful as a way of receiving files from a variety of command
line tools and daemons and making PDF content out of that. Thus,
removing it once legacy apps have caught up with direct CUPS
interfacing is not a good idea, since it actually has uses beyond
desktop environments.

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Martin-Éric Racine
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