Quoting "Martin-Éric Racine", who wrote on 2019-07-03 at 13:06 Uhr +0300:
My best guess is that you bumped into a symptom of upgrading from cups-pdf 2 to cups-pdf 3. The back-end has changed and maintainer scripts make no attempt to upgrade the backend used by any existing PDF queue. If you purge and re-install the package, does file creation still fail?
Yes. I purged and reinstalled, and the problem persists. I even removed the printer and reinstalled it. The same problem seems to be the case: the gs process is failing to write to the output directory, even if the directory is set to 777.
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