I solved this issue by purging then reinstalling cups-pdf. Then when adding a PDF printer I noticed the cups printername must be at least 4 characters (if not APPLY is greyed out). My cups-pdf printer on Karmic only had 3 chars ('PDF') - maybe the issue is related to that?
-- Lucid: Backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf does not exist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573667 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs