Public bug reported:

I have read that the default location where pdf file produced by cups-
pdf are placed is in ~/PDF. I had this directory as a symbolic link on
my system pointing to ~/Documents/PDF. This produced the following error
in the log:

Mon Nov 14 11:55:38 2011  [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file (non 
fatal) (/home/cristian/PDF/Pagina_di_test.pdf)
Mon Nov 14 11:55:38 2011  [STATUS] PDF creation successfully finished (cristian)

note: "/home/cristian" is my home directory, the PDF folder and the
target directory "/home/cristian/Documents/PDF" have full rwx permission
for all users (changed on purposte to test this error).

Please note that even if the log said " PDF creation successfully
finished" no pdf file was produced.

I have renamed my symbolic link and created a new PDF folder in my home
"~/PDF" and everything works fine, but the system doesn't work with
symbolic directories.


$ dpkg -l cups-pdf
ii  cups-pdf                          2.5.1-7                           PDF 
writer backend for CUPS

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 11.10
Release:        11.10
Codename:       oneiric

$ uname -a
Linux [...] 3.0.0-13-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 2 13:27:26 UTC 2011 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

** Affects: cups-pdf (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  cups-pdf fails to produce pdf if the ~/PDF is symbolically linked

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