-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-06-24 10:53, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Jun 24 15:36 1xx wrote (excerpt):
The needs to print on a virtual printer exists.
Why?
What should "a virtual printer" actually mean for the user?
What final user's goal is solved by "a virtual printer"?
I prefer to print to PDF directly from the application, if possible. However, some applications do not have it, and in this case having a printer that instead creates local postcript or pdf files in a directory is interesting. For instance, I have used this trick to easily capture screenshots from Flash. Another use case is printing in a laptop on the road to a PDF directory; then I copy the PDFs to an usb stick, and take them over to a print shop for a hard copy, because I don't carry my printer on the road.
I mean this questions very seriously,
Well, you see there can be uses :-) As to having a printer to pdf on the desktop, not all desktops have it. For instance, in my XFCE settings dialog, I do see a "printers" module, but it is in fact the KDE print module. And then I could be wanting to print from the CLI, outside of a desktop. Or I could be working remotely on another machine. I could want to print, get the output on a file by default on all apps, and then retrieve those pdf files for actual printing at my real location - not on the default remote paper printer.
Regarding let a CUPS backend write its output into a file in a user's home directory:
The user lp is not allowed to write into a user's home directory.
The user root has unlimited permissions so that root can do everything but that does notably not mean that root is allowed to do everything.
Not on the "gvfsd" directory, which is weird, and makes many old tools bark: Telcontar:~ # lsof pepe lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs Output information may be incomplete. lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /var/run/user/1000/gvfs Output information may be incomplete. Telcontar:~ # - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlOpcnkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XG1wCfUFy4mVcVejZY8lVjyJcqGWgG n38An31AA++Jb0xyt3LZFvVN7kS+v1O0 =6XZG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org