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[Timothy Arceri <382829@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Both the output dir and and file name are set by the application using GTK. 
See: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/demos/gtk-demo/printing.c?id=3.1.12

Output is meant to be a fallback option for application that have not
implemented this.

First things first I have filled this bug to improve the GTK api to make this simpler for applications to implement.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657322

Once this is implemented its a matter of working through the list and creating patches for each application.
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PrintToFile


** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #657322
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657322

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382829

Title:
  Suggested output when printing a file to PDF is technical and generic
  "~/output.pdf"

Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
  Unknown
Status in GTK Version 2:
  Invalid
Status in GTK 3:
  New
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Triaged
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Jaunty, GNOME print dialogs have a "Print to File" printer
  available in the Print dialog. When you select this printer, the
  output file's suggested name is "output.pdf" and the suggested
  location is the user's home directory. Even worse, Firefox suggests
  "~/.ps", which will create an invisible file in the user's home
  directory, using a file format (postscript) that the user may not
  understand.

  "output" is jargon, has the potential to collide with another file of
  the same name in the destination directory, and is difficult to
  remember as it has no relation to the name of the file being printed.
  Incorporating the source file's name in the output filename seems like
  a great improvement.

  Saving to the user's home directory is reasonable, but the Desktop is
  a more accessible location. We may also want to consider saving the
  PDF to the same directory as the source file.

  Suggestion:
   * Always default to PDF format.
   * Reuse the source filename if known, else use "Untitled" or the naming convention for unnamed files.
   * Default to saving on the Desktop rather than inside the user's home folder.

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