[SOLVED] Print to File - cups

Joseph_sys · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:19 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Print to File - cups

I'm running "cups" in XFCE when I go to "print" in any application I have an options select printer or "Print to File" (pdf ps)
There is an options "Save to Folder" field which is empty on my recently upgraded system; the default should be my home directory

Where is this "Print to File" configuration file? How this entry is generated "Print to File?

aCOSwt · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:30 am Post subject:

In order to enable a print to pdf, I needed to install net-print/cups-pdf

Which, per default, creates the files in /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}

If this is what you did then cups-pdf can be configured (default directory included) via : /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf
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i92guboj · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:22 am Post subject:

He's talking about the built-in functionality in evince and some other programs. It's nothing to do with the cups-pdf filter. I have no idea how to control that though, it's quite annoying, I have somehow grow accustomed to using tab tab down arrow to quickly select the home folder though :lol:

cwr · Veteran Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969

AFAIK this is an improvement to the Gnome/GTK printing dialog window to make it more usable.
It's part of the library, so can't be changed. I met it first in Gedit, and it annoyed me so much
I patched and rebuilt the library to get the old behaviour.

Will

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Joseph_sys · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:21 am Post subject:

Joseph_sys · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:08 am Post subject:

Here is a list of 149 packaged that I emerged one of them is responsible for implementation of that "Print to File" in Print window
Can somebody give me a hint which one it might be?

By the way meld-1.7.0 is buggy don't use it, 1.6.0 works OK

i92guboj · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:21 pm Post subject:

As I insinuated, and before that, someone else pointed out, this has nothing to do with cups nor poppler. The print to file thing is something that the gtk+ print dialog does by itself, so, if you want to patch it, you'll be patching gtk. Can't help with that.

Joseph_sys · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:05 pm Post subject:

cwr · Veteran Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969

If it's what I think it is, it's a feature not a bug. Certainly the change I made was to revert
to a previous version of the library - my notes file shows: