Feature changed by: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) Feature #312322, revision 3 Title: cups-pdf Drucker wieder per default installieren openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Karl Sinn (karlsinn) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi, I think that openSUSE should install a pdf-printer as default again. All the best Karl Discussion: #1: Detlef Wiese (dewiese) (2011-05-10 18:01:08) That's a very good idea, eg if you want to 'print' website from the browser or just don't want use another application to creat a PDF from your work. + #2: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) (2011-05-11 10:16:29) + See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_to_PDF + (http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_to_PDF) for information. There is + a fundamental difference between making a PDF file from applications or + from the desktop versus having a workaround via a print queue which + results PDF files in a special directory. + Regarding making a PDF file from applications or from the desktop: + I don't know if something may have changed in applications (browsers, + OpenOffice, LibreOffice, ...) or in the desktops (Gnome, KDE3, KDE4, + ...) where such a functionality was available but is now no longer + available. + If this is the acutal reason for this feature request, please file + either bug reports or feature requests for the particular applications + or desktops which can no longer make PDFs. + For example on my openSUSE 11.4 KDE4 desktop I have in the print menue + of "kwrite" the two entries "Print to File (PDF)" and "Print to File + (Postscript)" so that at least in this example the desktop still + provides this functionality. + Regarding the workaround via a print queue: + The workaround via a print queue never was set up automatically and + never will be set up by default because of the possible (security) + issues, read the information, see the URL above. + According to "osc search --package cups-pdf | grep -v ^home" the + package "cups-pdf" which provides the software for the workaround via a + print queue (in particular a CUPS backend which must run as root) was + never included in the official openSUSE distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312322