This cannot be fixed by modifying the cups-pdf package. cups-pdf does
nothing more than providing a print queue which generates PDF files
instead of sending the job to an actual printer. As it provides a print
queue, you will only have a "print to PDF". Yo get an "export to PDF"
(like in OpenOffice.org: "File" -> "Export to PDF ...") the individual
applications need to be modified. Application developers have to add the
"Export to PDF ..." function which generates a PDF from the current
document and lets the user save it with the usual "Save as ..." dialog
(as OpenOffice.org does). cups-pdf is an interim solution for the time
being until all applications have an "Export to PDF ..." function.
PDF generators will be added to all applications sooner or later anyway
as it was agreed on on the Printing Summit in April 2006 in Atlanta that
PDF will replace PostScript as standard print job format. So it is no bg
deal to add an "Export to PDF ..." function.
The best way to solve this is to add the PDF generating functionality to
the desktop libraries (Cairo, GTK, Qt, ...) and to add a common PDF
generator dialog which gets linked to the application via Portland/XDG.
All this has to come from upstream. It cannot be solved by the Ubuntu
packaging.
** Changed in: ubuntu
Sourcepackagename: cups-pdf => None
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
Status: New => Confirmed
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[Usability] The PDF export implementation in UI is not good
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164298
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