pdf printer produces ps file instead of pdf when "save as file" is chosen in print dialog

The Print dialog you see in applications has nothing to do with CUPS-PDF; it uses the desktop environment's own library to generate PostScript documents. In which application were you trying to print this PDF?

firefox 2.0

same pb with thuderbird 2.006

with some other gnome-applications i tested a few minutes ago , the print-gui wasn't exactly the same , especially ,no check box for choosing another path for file , so if you print with pdf file printer you can't choose another path and printing is well made in PDF directory ( readable with acrobat)

with kde-applications runingwith gnome ( like konqueror) no problem because the gui is a kde gui and you can choose a special way to print pdf file ( acrobat icon in the gui)

In that case, the problem is with how Mozilla applications generate PDF files. If you select CUPS/CUPS-PDF among the available printers, it will let CUPS produce the file.

Howto? because when i ask for printing in firefox or thunderbird i haven't other choice of gui

i tried to change print.postscript.print_command option from " lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+-P"$MOZ_PRINTER_NAME"} " to " kprinter ' but it don't solve the pb , i get the same gnome gui

Do you have the firefox-gnome-support package installed? If yes, then it uses the normal GTK print library to process printouts.

yes I have ,

i tested that

i have uninstalled firefox-gnome-support ,shutdown and restart ; ,same gui same pb ( remember i have changed print.postscript.print_command option from " lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+-P"$MOZ_PRINTER_NAME"} " to " kprinter ') so i 'm going to reinstall firefox-gnome-support

I can confirm this behaviour.

I only found out recently how cups-pdf is supposed to work. It is very unintuitive in a desktop environment (I know, cups-pdf was never intended for these environments, but is a back-end to CUPS)

Except that there is no Print Dialog offered by CUPS-PDF. What the user sees is whichever toolkit some application was built with, sometimes offering built-in Save To PS capability. It really isn't a CUPS-PDF issue. This should be reassigned to one of the Xulrunner components.

This seems to be caused by Firefox's own CUPS support. Reassigning.

I don't see this anymore in Jaunty's FF 3.0.11. Does anybody else?

Assuming this is fixed. Please reopen if you still experience this.