The settings in print to file option in Ubuntu is limiting and dangerous. All the applications apart from Mozilla print to a file ~/output.pdf, this is dangerous as you can overwrite a previous print.
Edit: I have been informed you are asked whether you wish to overwrite, unlike in cups-pdf
Why can't applications use the title of the document, the filename or the page title of the web page?
What package and where are the settings of this print to file held. I would prefer it printing to the desktop if it cannot intuitively chose a filename, as when it arrives on the desktop it would be a visual reminder for me to change the filename.
Previously I did not use the print to file feature, as the cups-pdf didn't have these short comings. But the latest releases including 12.04 of cups-pdf has been botched and all text are converted to images before embedding them in the pdf. Making the PDFs useless as it prevents the selecting of text and the sharpness of the text is lost too. The bug has been reported for sometime now, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/820820 and as usual been labelled as a wish list feature.
So my question is where in the system is the ~/output.pdf set?
so one can change it to the desktop.
There must be a parent config file that is setting ~/output.pdf as the default filename and other applications are referring to it. It is also difficult when you don't know which package controls print to file.
Filing bugs has become pointless in my experience.
– pt123 May 26 '12 at 02:17Filing bugs has become pointless in my experience.
– pt123 May 26 '12 at 02:23[Print Settings] cover-after=none print-at=now scale=100 reverse=false print-pages=all resolution=600 print-at-time= resolution-x=600 resolution-y=600 cups-job-sheets=none,none cups-job-priority=50 collate=false cups-Resolution=600dpi cover-before=none number-up=1 page-set=all cups-number-up=1 printer=PDF
– pt123 May 26 '12 at 02:54Eye of Gnome is doing the same thing, remembering the last printed file you set.
– pt123 May 26 '12 at 03:03Paper size
via the gedit settings, too? I would like to change the default fromLetter
toA4
. – JJD May 19 '13 at 14:40