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In Jaunty, GNOME print dialogs have a "Print to File" printer available
in the Print dialog. When you select this printer, the output file's
suggested name is "output.pdf" and the suggested location is the user's
home directory.

"output" is jargon, has the potential to collide with another file of
the same name in the destination directory, and is difficult to remember
as it has no relation to the name of the file being printed.
Incorporating the source file's name in the output filename seems like a
great improvement.

Saving to the user's home directory is reasonable, but the Desktop is a
more accessible location. We may also want to consider saving the PDF to
the same directory as the source file.

Suggestion:
 * Always default to PDF format.
 * Reuse the source filename if known, else use "Untitled" or the naming 
convention for unnamed files.
 * Default to saving on the Desktop rather than inside the user's home folder.

** Affects: gtk
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: gtk2
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: gtk3
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: hundredpapercuts
     Importance: Low
     Assignee: Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)
         Status: Fix Committed

** Affects: gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Fix Committed


** Tags: css-sponsored-p
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Suggested output when printing a file to PDF is technical and generic 
"~/output.pdf"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382829
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