cups print dialog defaulting to Postscript...

[Onkar Shinde]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Daniel J Blueman
<daniel.blueman at gmail.com> wrote:
> When selecting 'Print to File' in the CUPS printer dialog box,
> Postscript is selected per default.
>
> Many users may not realise that this is disadvantageous until too late
> - with all the fonts converted to paths and less easy to open on other
> operating systems.
>
> PDF seems a rational default - what reasons are against changing to this?

I agree that PDF should have been default since start. I believe there
was a papercut bug for this. But I don't have reference to the bug.

By the way what you call as CUPS dialog is probably the dialog
provided by printing APIs in GTK+. So it should be possible to patch
GTK+ to use PDF by default.


Onkar