Bug 324037 - Default printer -print to PDF
Summary: Default printer -print to PDF
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: print-dialog (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist
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Reported: 2013-08-26 00:34 UTC by Volker Kuhlmann
Modified: 2024-09-14 16:17 UTC (History)
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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kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.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