Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Klaus Singvogel <kssingvo@xxxxxxx>]

Sid Boyce wrote:
> Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> > Sid Boyce wrote:
> > > Any chance of including in 11.0? It would be much better and more
> > > up-to-date to be able to print to pdf rather than ps which is becoming a
> > > rarity.
> >
> > Why that?
> > Which advantage of the cups-pdf backend do you expect?
>
> To be able to get a .pdf file output from firefox instead of .ps.

I agree to Johannes posting earlier this day on this mailing list.
Please have a look at it.

It is not the job of the printing system to generate user specific
file types. Including "cups-"pdf for generation of such user specific
file printouts might result in major security issues. Such an
enhancement contradicts the design of the printing system.

We don't mind, if you include this backend at your own installation.
But we cannot do this in our distribution for all customers. The risks
are too high.

But another solution for you might be:
- save the output into a .ps file
- and run 'ps2pdf' on the .ps file

Regards,
        Klaus.
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