[Okular-devel] [Bug 175097] New: PDF Backend does not support "Print to file"

[Stefan Brüns]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175097

           Summary: PDF Backend does not support "Print to file"
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: PDF backend
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: lurch at gmx.li


Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Current state for the PDF backend:

* PDF backend supports printing to Postscript (Poppler PSOutputDevice), so it
could print to PS file.

* PDF backend does not support conversion to PDF - Poppler has no
PDFOutputDevice, although it can save its internal state of the PDF document.
Dont know if this is enough if there are annotations, only a selection of pages
should be printed, printing to different paper size ...

* QTs print dialog only has a general flag for disabling printing to file, but
does not differentiate between "print to PDF" and "print to PS". There is no
possibility for an application to signal "generation of PS is supported, but
not for PDF" - so printing to file is disabled completely.

For KDE3/Kpdf, this was different - applications had to generate PS, and the PS
was converted to PDF (via ghostscript).

** PLEASE ** dont close this _wishlist_ item as invalid - saving to PS _and_
PDF would be really nice, especially when one has made annotations to the
document or filled out a form.


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