[Okular-devel] [Bug 277801] New: append ".pdf" to filename when printing to file as pdf

[fred]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277801

           Summary: append ".pdf" to filename when printing to file as pdf
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.12.5
          Platform: Archlinux Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: fdruec1 at uic.edu


Version:           0.12.5 (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

If you print to file with the pdf printer, you only succeed when your filename
has a suffix of "pdf", certainly this is true if your pdf is an image file with
no accompanying text (this what you get when a scanner generates pdf files for
you).  For example, let's say:

You print to the file named "page_one" using the pdf printer.  It fails

You print to the file named "page_two" using the pdf printer.  It succeeds

I'm on version 4.6.5, it's not available as a tracker choice yet.

Similar thing happens for "ps".

If you do this in kwrite, it's no problem.  Tell it to print to file, "foo" and
you'll get an output file "foo", and you can open it in a document view, such
as okular itself, and it'll look like it should.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) open pdf

2) print to file using the pdf printer, omit the ".pdf" file extension

Actual Results:  
Error dialogue box appears, no file is produced.

Expected Results:  
I'd expect either to get a either a pdf file with no name extension, like
kwrite produces, or get the .pdf automatically appended.  The former behavior
is "more unix", but I consider appending .pdf acceptable behavior as well,
simply failing is, though, is bad.

I'm on version 4.6.5, it's not available as a tracker choice yet.

Arguably, this is a feature request, but since the failure is so damned
un-informative as to it's nature (I naturally assumed this was a CUPS problem,
spent way too long tracking down the actual cause), I think it *is* a bug, and
honestly, it's probably almost as easy to auto-append the ".pdf" or ".ps" to
the files as it is to t write an error message that informs the user what's
really going on.

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