Bug#176932: openoffice.org: Printing to PDF files is so counterintuitive it looks broken
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.0.1-7
Severity: normal
These are probably upstream, but...
2 scenarios:
* Without running the printer admin tool to install any extra drivers,
I do the following.
1. File->Print
2. Select "Print to file"
3. In the default directory ($HOME) use filename yip.pdf and choose
"PDF" as the "File type".
4. Save.
5. OK.
Now, I really do expect to get a PDF file and am totally surprised
when I don't (and I get a postscript file). When I think about it
carefully, I realise that the "File type" widget should say "Show
files of type".
* I install the PDF converter filter.
Since I'm naive or lazy, I don't select the long "gs ..." command
that a newbie wouldn't realise the significance of. That means the
default command is still "lpr". When I print, it possibly does
convert to PDF, but my print filters will convert it back to
postscript and just print it.
Surely the long "gs ..." command should be the default command for
the PDF converter?
By the way, thanks for packaging OpenOffice.org. The packaged version
seems to run much more stably than my old hand-installed copy...
Thanks!
peace & happiness,
martin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux rover 2.4.20 #1 Tue Dec 3 15:56:54 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.0.1-7 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.0.1-7+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en 1.0.1-7 English (US) language package for
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