Bug 324037

Summary: Default printer -print to PDF
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Volker Kuhlmann <bugz57>
Component: print-dialogAssignee: KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: lueck
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Volker Kuhlmann 2013-08-26 00:34:59 UTC 
99 times out of 100 I want to create a PDF to save, not spend paper. That's for the paperless office.

It is pretty irritating that every KDE app every single time comes up with the default CUPS printer, and that can't be changed in system settings to default to "print to PDF" because that's not a CUPS printer.

Using paper is the exception, not the rule, and I would like defaults to reflect that!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Print anything - konqueror, kmail, etc.
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Actual Results:  
Default printer is the default CUPS printer.

Expected Results:  
Default printing is "print to PDF".
Comment 1 Burkhard Lück 2013-08-26 04:53:29 UTC 
install cups-pdf that allows one to setup a virtual printer that will generate a PDF from anything sent to it and set cups-pdf as default printer.
Comment 2 Daniel Nicoletti 2013-08-27 02:15:28 UTC 
That being said the print-dialog is another component.
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 16:17:37 UTC 
Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have implemented this wish.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann