>> If you want to tell me that che cups-pdf driver is useless because it's >> possible to print to file from the print interface, okay, I'll buy it. > >I never said cups-pdf was useless. I would say its use is inappropriate >in some situations. Converting an existing PDF to a PDF is one of them.
Speaking from a user's point of view, when I print from Firefox, I am not converting anything. I view a web page and I want to have it in PDF. So I cannot tell whether it is appropriate using cups-pdf. This is the normal use case. >From a system programmer's point of view, if I try to debug the problem, I can discover that Firofox does internally create a PDF file and I will have a clue as to how to diagnose what's happening. This has nothing to do with the use case or the user's point of view. >As for buying it, you and the upstrem author agree: > > > I remain with my view that if your application already > > supports PDF output - why not simply print to a file. >That's from #658004. Firefox does not support PDF printing, without add-ons at least, so this case is not relevant. However, the system's graphical printing interface does support generating a PDF. This in fact makes cups-pdf suboptimal or simply useless for locally generating PDF files, at least when a GUI is available, unless I am missing anything. >A wishlist bug against cups-pdf would be the way to go. I'll follow your advice and file a wishlist report. >> No, I do just want to have a PDF file produced in my ~/PDF directory. >> The above steps are meant to help debugging the problem. > >No? But that is what you are doing. A Firefox produced PDF can go in >~/PDF. You are not following what I write. >> In contrast, as far as I can see, cups-pdf is intended to be generic, >> rather than specific for PS files. This is what I read on the Debian >> package description as well as on <http://www.cups-pdf.de/>. > >The package description doesn't mention "generic". Neither can I see the >word at upstream's home page, You sidestep the issue and try to nit-pick. I'll stop here. -- Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Voice: +39.050.621.3058 ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Skype: wnlabisti (entrance 20, 1st floor, room C71) Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it
