365541 - Printing to file can't handle pipes / filters

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jim Turner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/2.0 (Swiftfox)
Build Identifier: 2.0

Could you add the ability to specify a pipe and filter combo as the "file name" when printing to a file?  What I am wanting to do is print to PDF format instead of Postscript (much smaller files).  I would like to be able to specify something like "| ps2pdf >mozilla.pdf" for the file name.  This currently just creates a postscript file called "| ps2pdf >mozilla.pdf"?!

Thanks!


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  File.Print
2.  Check "Print to file"
3.  Press [Print]
4.  Specify a filename beginning with a pipe, ie. "| ps2pdf >mozilla.pdf"

Actual Results:  
Created file called "| ps2pdf >mozilla.pdf".

Expected Results:  
pdf file called "mozilla.pdf" after filtering stdout through the "ps2pdf" utility in the user's path.


Not quote the user-entered filename, but instead output to STDOUT if the specified filename begins with the pipe symbol.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is obscure command line stuff that doesn't seem very useful as a general feature.  Perhaps as an extension, but print to PDF is on the platform group's roadmap and solves this in a vastly better way...

Comment 2

[Jim Turner]

It looks like the pdf feature has since been added to the latest Firefox.  I still think the concept is good though and as a Linux user, I do not feel that the command-line is "obscure" though.  Thanks anyway, though.

Regards,

Jim Turner