Yes, this is still present in 20.04 with printer-driver-cups-pdf 3.0.1-6, limited to original reporter’s case of having the symlink point to another filesystem; if I point ~\/PDF to, say ~\/tmp\/PDF (without crossing filesystem borders), the PDF is created without issue, whereas having ~\/PDF linked to \/media\/$USER\/$USB_THUMBDRIVE\/PDF\/ does still cause it to fail:<\/p>\n
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