Bug#847462: the problem is with CUPS
>> If you want to tell me that che cups-pdf driver is useless because it's
>> possible to print to file from the print interface, okay, I'll buy it.
>
>I never said cups-pdf was useless. I would say its use is inappropriate
>in some situations. Converting an existing PDF to a PDF is one of them.
Speaking from a user's point of view, when I print from Firefox, I am
not converting anything. I view a web page and I want to have it in
PDF. So I cannot tell whether it is appropriate using cups-pdf. This
is the normal use case.
>From a system programmer's point of view, if I try to debug the problem,
I can discover that Firofox does internally create a PDF file and I will
have a clue as to how to diagnose what's happening. This has nothing to
do with the use case or the user's point of view.
>As for buying it, you and the upstrem author agree:
>
> > I remain with my view that if your application already
> > supports PDF output - why not simply print to a file.
>That's from #658004.
Firefox does not support PDF printing, without add-ons at least, so this
case is not relevant.
However, the system's graphical printing interface does support
generating a PDF. This in fact makes cups-pdf suboptimal or simply
useless for locally generating PDF files, at least when a GUI is
available, unless I am missing anything.
>A wishlist bug against cups-pdf would be the way to go.
I'll follow your advice and file a wishlist report.
>> No, I do just want to have a PDF file produced in my ~/PDF directory.
>> The above steps are meant to help debugging the problem.
>
>No? But that is what you are doing. A Firefox produced PDF can go in
>~/PDF.
You are not following what I write.
>> In contrast, as far as I can see, cups-pdf is intended to be generic,
>> rather than specific for PS files. This is what I read on the Debian
>> package description as well as on <http://www.cups-pdf.de/>.
>
>The package description doesn't mention "generic". Neither can I see the
>word at upstream's home page,
You sidestep the issue and try to nit-pick. I'll stop here.
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