https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75518
V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |[email protected] Resolution|--- |WONTFIX --- Comment #7 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Yousuf (Jay) Philips from comment #6) > The only OS i think this option might be useful for is on Linux, as the > option to export to PDF isnt available as a virtual printer on Windows, > which is why there are many free PDF printer drivers around (e.g. PrimoPDF, > CutePDF, etc.). Actually as Adolfo points out in Comment 5 -- Windows 10 now implements a virtual PDF print device, similar to their long present XPS. > On Linux, there isnt a virtual pdf printer installed by default, though it > is easy to install one by installing the cups-pdf package on Ubuntu. So with > this in mind, and knowing that CUPS has this capability and is installed by > default on most Linux systems, the gnome print dialog has a 'Print to File' > option that exports as PDF, Postscript and SVG. Calligra is also aware of > this and provides Print to File options for PDF and Postscript from its > print dialog. Yes printing on all Linux flavors I'm familiar with is CUPS based, which makes use of ghostscript--so PDF is derived there. Earlier Windows PDF printers do similar, just bundled for Windows. Now with "native" PDF support at Windows 10. > > Not sure how useful it is to pursue this enhancement when it is quite > limited in its scope, we provide direct access to pdf exporting, and it > would likely involve quite a bit of development. So lets see what devs think > about how easy this is to implement. IMHO, the existing menu "Export as PDF" using LibreOffice filters is sufficient. Also, no need to add either a Print to File, or change the existing Print dialog which includes either the OS provided, or an installed PDF printer (e.g. CutePDF or Adobe Distiller). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise
