Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppe...@gmail.com>
* Package name : cpdb-backend-file Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Ayush Bansal <ayushb...@gmail.com> * URL : https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cpdb-backend-file * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : Common Print Dialog Backends - Print-to-File Backend This package needs cpdb-libs, ITP here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911335 This is already packaged for Ubuntu. This is the long description of the Ubuntu package: This is the Print-to-File backend for print dialogs using the Common Print Dialog Backends concept of OpenPrinting. It makes the dialog list one single print queue and if you print to it, the data is put into a PDF file and not sent to a printer. The idea is to decouple the print dialog's GUI code (GTK, Qt, LibreOffice, ... The frontends) from the code which communicates with actual print technologies (CUPS, IPP, Google Cloud Print, Save to File, ... The backends) to make them independently interchangable. This way one can do things like - Add a new print technology and it is immediately available for all GUI apps. Especially an online print service provider could simply put its backend into the Snap Store and asks his Linux users to install it. - A change in a print technology, for example new functionality in CUPS, can be covered by simply updating the CUPS backend. No need to change all GUI libraries. - User logs in for Google Cloud Print once and not separately for each GUI platform to get his cloud printers into all the apps. - In case of a security bug in the communication code with one print technology only the backend needs to get fixed, not several GUI libs. This package contains a backend which creates a printer entry in all print dialogs (using cpdb-libs) which drops jobs sent to it simply in PDF files. The backend instructs the print dialogs to show a printer entry and to pop-up a "Save as ..." dialog when hitting "Print" (and/or selecting the "Destination File Name" option). For this to work at least one application with a print dialog using cpdb-libs must be installed. Of the GUIs LibreOffice already supports this system and only needs to get rebuilt with this library. Patches for GTK and a modified Qt print dialog are in the works. All packages are already available as Ubuntu packages in Ubuntu's Universe part. The maintenance in Debian should be done in the Debian Printing Team. I am not a Debian Developer but OdyX (Didier Raboud, o...@debian.org) is willing to upload these packages.
