Print to file (PDF) feature

[Zach]

Did it again, hit reply vs reply all.  See message below, please.

On 7/9/05, Zach <uid000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> cups-pdf is kind of gimpy.  It gets you by in a pinch, but is pretty
> rough.  For one thing it doesn't give you any print-time configuration
> options such as what to name the pdf or where to save it, or
> customization of the quality of the pdf.  Instead it names it a very
> cryptic long name and under a specific directory.  Second, and perhaps
> more significantly, it insists on cups running as root, rather than
> Ubuntu's default of running cups as an unpriviledged user (this was an
> obscure but essential detail that I only discovered after running a
> french-language ubuntu wiki through babelfish).  It also creates pdfs
> that often are not readable under gpdf (which is not uncommon).
> 
> Ideally there would be similar functionality either as an add-on
> project or as part of gnome, that would be similar in quality &
> features to the PDFCreator project for windows,
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/.
> 
> On 7/9/05, Jon Saints <saintsjd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > How about using cups-pdf instead?
>