Patrice Vetsel suggested to change Label 0 to Label 1, which works as
expected, it adds the Job number to the file name.

What it doesn't tell you is that the job number is not guaranteed to be
unique as far as I know, so there is a possibility of the same job and
file name overwriting, which is going to be extremely hard to notice
because it won't likely happen that often.

Personally I think that the preference should be:
Overwrite 0 - no, never overwrite an existing file, create a unique name
Overwrite 1 - yes, if a file exists with the same name, overwrite it

The biggest challenge in all these discussions are that it is likely
that Server users and Workstation users have different requirements.
Likely they'll conflict - for example, a Workstation user has access to
a notification method like d-bus, but I'm pretty sure that there is no
mechanism for a Server process to notify a user on their workstation -
given that the workstation could be running any OS.

>From reading reports about this and related issues I can only suggest
that the issue is not if the behaviour is buggy or not, rather that each
person has a different expected behaviour. As I see it, fixing this bug
is one of "Expectation Management", rather than fixing an actual bug -
other than the unexpected behaviour I've documented above.

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[Tribe5] cups-pdf do not overwrite existing pdf
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