I am printing some images rendered on a frame through PrintJob API on Solaris9-CDE. I am setting the dialog type to COMMON / NATIVE. When the print dialog is shown, I am selecting 'PrintToFile' checkbox and clicking OK. A file dialog pops up with a default file name 'out.ps'. Now I am setting the destination type as FILE programmatically in the job attributes and popping up the common dialog. PrintToFile option is shown as selected. I am just clicking the OK button. A file dialog appears with a default file name 'out.prn'. When I don't popup dialogs and simply print to a file, the print data is printed to 'out.prn'. This is little confusing. I am not sure why we should have 2 default file names. Either we must stick to out.prn as we do on windows or we must set it to 'out.ps' everywhere. The default file name must be consistant so that the user will know which file to look at, especially when using the background printing option.

This is noticed only on Solaris and Linux right from Tiger-beta. This feature is not available in previous releases.

I have attached a test. Click COMMON / NATIVE dialog buttons. Choose 'PrintToFile' option and click ok. Make a note of the default file name shown in the file dialog. Click 'Print To File - COMMON Dialog' button. Click 'OK' on the print dialog. Check the file name shown in the file dialog. If it is not same as what has been told earlier, the bug is reproduced.