Bug 277801

Version:           0.12.5 (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

If you print to file with the pdf printer, you only succeed when your filename has a suffix of "pdf", certainly this is true if your pdf is an image file with no accompanying text (this what you get when a scanner generates pdf files for you).  For example, let's say:

You print to the file named "page_one" using the pdf printer.  It fails

You print to the file named "page_two" using the pdf printer.  It succeeds

I'm on version 4.6.5, it's not available as a tracker choice yet.

Similar thing happens for "ps".

If you do this in kwrite, it's no problem.  Tell it to print to file, "foo" and you'll get an output file "foo", and you can open it in a document view, such as okular itself, and it'll look like it should.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) open pdf

2) print to file using the pdf printer, omit the ".pdf" file extension

Actual Results:  
Error dialogue box appears, no file is produced.

Expected Results:  
I'd expect either to get a either a pdf file with no name extension, like kwrite produces, or get the .pdf automatically appended.  The former behavior is "more unix", but I consider appending .pdf acceptable behavior as well, simply failing is, though, is bad.

I'm on version 4.6.5, it's not available as a tracker choice yet.

Arguably, this is a feature request, but since the failure is so damned un-informative as to it's nature (I naturally assumed this was a CUPS problem, spent way too long tracking down the actual cause), I think it *is* a bug, and honestly, it's probably almost as easy to auto-append the ".pdf" or ".ps" to the files as it is to t write an error message that informs the user what's really going on.