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epiphany-browser package

error message when trying to print to pdf is not clear

Bug #5785 reported by christoph sturm
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Epiphany Browser
Expired
High
epiphany-browser (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Trying to save a page as html i entered the "Print" Dialog, and selected "Create a pdf Document" there. This resulted in a dialog box saying "Generating PDF is not supported".

At this point it was not clear why its not supported. (do i need an additional package, why do i get the offer to "create a pdf", and get told later that i cant.)
Searching the net for this error message i found out that epiphany doesnt support printing to pdf.

Easy fix: Change the error message to "Generating PDF is not supported by epiphany".
Real fix: filter out the "Generate PDF" Option in the printer dialong

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in epiphany-browser:
assignee: nobody → gnome
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in epiphany-browser:
assignee: nobody → gnome
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug, I've forwarded it upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324171

Does the "by epiphany" would make things clearer? You try to print from epiphany, it seems that's clear that the message is about the application

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christoph sturm (christoph-sturm) wrote :

the "by epiphany" would make it clearer (at least for me) because when the dialog box appeared i had no idea *why* generating pdf is not supported (do i need to install a new package, does gnome not support this at all (why does it offer the option then?), etc)
Maybe something like "We are sorry, but right now epiphany doesnt support printing to pdf" would be better.

thanks
 chris

Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)
Changed in epiphany-browser:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in epiphany-browser:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in epiphany-browser:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The bug has been marked as obsolete by upstream, doing the same with the distro task and marking it as "Fix Released", comment from upstream:

"First, this bug is resolved by epiphany 2.15 using the new gtk printing code
where we only allow to print to PS and so the error doesn't occur anymore.

With current mzoilla versions, it's impossible to print to PDF. And I don't
want to copy and maintain the copy of a PS->PDF conversion code (and ps2pdf
does horrible things most of the time I tried it, so just calling that command
isn't the solution).

Lastly, by using gecko 1.9 (mid-2007) we will allow printing to PDF directly."

Changed in epiphany-browser:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in epiphany-browser:
importance: Unknown → High
status: Invalid → Expired
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