I have withdrawn the proposed fix of letting the output file names being
preceeded by the print job numbers, as job numbers (and even the word
"job") can be confusing to non-technical users. Also files do not get
sorted by the names of the documents when they have a prefix, so PDFs of
the same document are not standing together in the display of the file
manager.
A better solution would be adding date and time (or simply 1, 2, 3, ...)
to the end of the file name, or better having a GUI tool to configure
the behavior of cups-pdf. This would require a major redesign of cups-
pdf by upstream, for which it is too late to include it in Gutsy.
In general it is a much better solution to have the applications by
themselves generating PDFs via "File"/"Export to PDF ..." or
"File"/"Print ...". OpenOffice.org has "File"/"Export to PDF ..." and
the current printing dialogs of both KDE and GNOME have functionality to
print into a PDF file, actually saving it as PDF, asking the user for
name and location. This is the most intuitive way and does not involve
any system process which runs with other rights than the calling user,
so it gives also the maximum security.
cups-pdf is an interim solution for all the apps which did not yet adopt
the latest printing dialogs (especially Firefox and Thunderbird). So we
will remove cups-pdf from Ubuntu as soon as all apps have caught up. In
the mean time we will only sync with upstream and fix bugs.
The real bug is in the apps which do not use the current printing
dialogs.
** Changed in: cups-pdf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium => Wishlist
Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
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[Tribe5] cups-pdf do not overwrite existing pdf
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