Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.0) OS: Linux If you want to save a document to PDF form, the intuitive thing to do is go to the 'File' entry in the application's menu, open the 'save as' option and look for the PDF format in the list of supported export file formats. In my experience, many new KDE users have never been able to create PDF documents, either because they never found that option, or because it's too complicated and they fail to remember how it is done. Please make it possible for KDEPrint to add intuitive 'Save As' functionality to all KDE applications.
This is not something that can be solved at kdeprint's level. The application developer is responsible for it's menu content (fortunately :-). KDEPrint provides an easy framework to add "quick-print" and "export" buttons/menu-items, but it's up to the application developer to make use of them. See for example this example: http://printing.kde.org/developer/tutorial/action.php
But am I correct when I say that KDEPrint does not export a 'save as PDF' function that applications can add to their list of export formats? You must understand that the idea of my wish is to hide the fact that 'Save As PDF' has anything to do with printing from the user. If it is currently possible (and easy) for application developers to add a 'Save As PDF' option to their standard 'save file' dialog, I will need to submit this wish to individual applications. If it is not possible, or hard to accomplish, shall I submit a new, more specific wish for KDEPrint?
The basic problem is that you're asking to make KDEPrint controls a KDE application, which is not possible. It's the application responsability to generate the print content and to decide when to do it. KDEPrint has no control on that, it only provides the tools to do it. What the application has to do is to create a button or menu-item, and provide the appropriate code to react on it. KDEPrint provides some tools to make it easy, but it cannot generate print data in place of the application itself.
Closing old Resolved status bug.