Comment 2 for bug 82674

I *think* the person who added this to the feature request means that there should be a printer device / printer queue automatically selected and installed after having installed cups-pdf and removed when un-installing the package.

Currently, as far as I know (have not checked feisty yet), you first have to install cups-pdf and then you need to go to the printer setup and select the printer-device from the list etc.

In order to have a PDF printing functionality as default, this last step (selecting and activating the PDF printer device) needs to be scripted. The perfect solution would be IMHO to check first if there is another printer device already installed. If no, make PDF printer the default printer; if yes, just install it but keep the existing printer as the default printer.

Read here how complicated it is to use the PDF printing functionality the first time. I think that still fails the grandmother test :-)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PDFPrinting?action=show&redirect=forum%2Fsoftware%2Fcups-pdf
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=188860