[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#531409: Bug#531409: cups-pdf: no longer deduces filename for output file from PS title

[Volker Behr]

Just as a quick comment: whether the PS-title or the command-line title
ist prefered can be set via cups-pdf.conf, option TitlePref.

Regards,
Volker

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 13:39 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 1:23 PM, martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: cups-pdf
> > Version: 2.5.0-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Not too long ago (~4-5 months), cups-pdf would use the postscript
> > title for the output filename. Now it just uses the same name as
> > passed on the command line, or _stdin_.pdf.
> >
> >  piper:~|master|% echo test | a2ps --title='my test' -2qo- | grep '^%%Title'
> >  %%Title: my test
> >  piper:~|master|% echo test | a2ps --title='my test' -2qo- | lp -d pdf
> >  request id is pdf-1158 (1 file(s))
> >  piper:~|master|% ls -l ~/PDF/*.pdf
> >  -rw------- 1 madduck madduck 5494 2009-06-01 12:14 /home/madduck/PDF/_stdin_.pdf
> >
> > I am pretty sure this worked with 2.4.8, so I assume it's
> > a regression in 2.5.0, possibly related to Ubuntu#237224, though
> > I did not verify that.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this.
> 
> I would be more inclined to think that it's a regression in CUPS
> itself starting with 1.3.10, since CUPS-PDF 2.5.0 works fine using
> CUPS 1.3.9 (at least on Ubuntu).  I just did a quick test, printing
> this message from the BTS via Gmail on Firefox and I correctly got the
> long HTML document title as the filename found in ~/PDF.
> 
> Martin-Éric
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