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In Jaunty, GNOME print dialogs have a "Print to File" printer available
in the Print dialog. When you select this printer, the output file's
suggested name is "output.pdf" and the suggested location is the user's
home directory. Even worse, Firefox suggests "~/.ps", which will create
an invisible file in the user's home directory, using a file format
(postscript) that the user may not understand.
"output" is jargon, has the potential to collide with another file of
the same name in the destination directory, and is difficult to remember
as it has no relation to the name of the file being printed.
Incorporating the source file's name in the output filename seems like a
great improvement.
Saving to the user's home directory is reasonable, but the Desktop is a
more accessible location. We may also want to consider saving the PDF to
the same directory as the source file.
Suggestion:
* Always default to PDF format.
* Reuse the source filename if known, else use "Untitled" or the naming
convention for unnamed files.
* Default to saving on the Desktop rather than inside the user's home folder.
** Affects: gtk2
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Affects: gtk3
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: hundredpapercuts
Importance: Low
Status: Triaged
** Affects: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
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Suggested output when printing a file to PDF is technical and generic
"~/output.pdf"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382829
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