https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75518
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 75518
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: UI: Add "Export as PDF" to list of printers in Print
dialog
Severity: enhancement
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: All
Status: NEW
Version: 4.2.0.4 release
Component: Printing and PDF export
Product: LibreOffice
This enhancement request is Linux-oriented, but I'm not sure that it would be a
problem if it were implemented for Windows and MacOS too.
Typical Linux applications (Web browsers, e-mail programs, text editors, even
programs like Inkscape & Dia that have explicit PDF export commands) have
"Print to File" (which includes PDF) as one of the printers listed in the Print
dialog.
If a user has been working in some of those other applications and then
switches to LO and wants to export a document to PDF, the first impulse is to
choose File > Print... and select the "Print to File" option ... but there's no
such option in the Print dialog ... so the user then has to close the Print
dialog and click the "Export Directly as PDF" button or choose File > Export as
PDF...
The enhancement request is to add an entry for "Export as PDF" to the list of
printers in the Print dialog. (I used the LO wording, "Export as PDF," rather
than the GTK wording of "Print to File," because it may be easier to use
existing UI elements from File > Export as PDF..., and those UI elements may
differ from the GTK "Print to File" options.)
The suggested enhancement may also occasionally help new users (on any OS) who
want to produce a PDF and don't at first notice the existing "Export as PDF"
options.
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