Ubuntu
cups-pdf package

hard to find out where printing to CUPS/PDF goes

Bug #157344 reported by Michael Hudson-Doyle
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cups-pdf (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I was printing a page from Firefox, selected the "CUPS/PDF" printer, hit print... and then had to google around for 10 minutes to find that the file had probably ended up in ~/PDF, which indeed it had.

I don't know how one would fix this. Ideal would be to get a file chooser dialog that lets you specify the location of the PDF. Failing that, have searching for "printing pdf" in the help centre give some hints would be good.

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #158406, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

OK, so my "ideal solution" was a duplicate of that bug (which was anyway after reported after this one :-p) but as that one has been marked Wont Fix, the problem I had that triggered this one still remains: it's near impossible to figure out where the PDF has gone after you print to PDF. This is probably a documentation bug now.

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chadwik (chadwik) wrote :

Marking this as a duplicate of bug 134682.

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