cups print dialog defaulting to Postscript...

[Daniel J Blueman]

Hi Onkar,

On 5 August 2010 06:05, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Good heads-up. From
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/611011 , the only
related paper cut I could find is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/611011

If this is the one you're referring to, I'll open another one.

Thanks for replying all the same!

Daniel
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Daniel J Blueman