On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:54:53PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mar 09/03/2004 à 13:13, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : > > CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. It can be used to provide > > a virtual printer to a paperless network or to perform testing on CUPS. > > . > > The optional Gnome package gnome-cups-manager is capable of auto-detecting > > this backend as a suitable printer and to offer to install it for you. > > What's the point of this backend for GNOME applications? All of them > (except for galeon/epiphany which don't use cups anyway) are already > capable of creating PDF documents.
Not everyone is using Gnome. Not everyone is even using Linux with Cups. Some maybe are using a proprietary Unix or Windows. I can see utility there.