Print to file should say "Export as PDF" instead of "Print to File"
Bug #164298 reported by
antistress
This bug affects 7 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GTK+ |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
One Hundred Papercuts |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cups-pdf
The new "print to PDF" function Gusty is great, but...
From a developper point of view, it probably makes sense to talk about "print to PDF"
From a developper point of view, it probably makes sense to go to "print" entry in menu to get a PDF file of the current document.
But from a user point of view, "export in PDF" has nothing to do with "print". Printing is getting a sheet of paper out of the printer, and not getting another electronic file.
I suggest to add a different entry in the menu to the "esport in PDF" function
summary: |
- [Usability] The PDF export implementation in UI is not good + [Usability] Print > Print To File -> "Export to PDF..." |
summary: |
- [Usability] Print > Print To File -> "Export to PDF..." + Print to file should say "Export to PDF" instead of "Print to PDF" |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → round-4 |
affects: | ubuntu → gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) |
Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
tags: | added: usability |
affects: | gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
affects: | ubuntu → gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | nobody → U.W.D.Dhananjaya (dedunumax) |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | U.W.D.Dhananjaya (dedunumax) → nobody |
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This cannot be fixed by modifying the cups-pdf package. cups-pdf does nothing more than providing a print queue which generates PDF files instead of sending the job to an actual printer. As it provides a print queue, you will only have a "print to PDF". Yo get an "export to PDF" (like in OpenOffice.org: "File" -> "Export to PDF ...") the individual applications need to be modified. Application developers have to add the "Export to PDF ..." function which generates a PDF from the current document and lets the user save it with the usual "Save as ..." dialog (as OpenOffice.org does). cups-pdf is an interim solution for the time being until all applications have an "Export to PDF ..." function.
PDF generators will be added to all applications sooner or later anyway as it was agreed on on the Printing Summit in April 2006 in Atlanta that PDF will replace PostScript as standard print job format. So it is no bg deal to add an "Export to PDF ..." function.
The best way to solve this is to add the PDF generating functionality to the desktop libraries (Cairo, GTK, Qt, ...) and to add a common PDF generator dialog which gets linked to the application via Portland/XDG. All this has to come from upstream. It cannot be solved by the Ubuntu packaging.