NoOp, AppArmor is installed by default as a new security concept for
CUPS, replacing the old, ugly patches making CUPS running as a non-root
user (which are not supported upstream). As cups-pdf is called by CUPS,
the AppArmor profile of CUPS also applies to cups-pdf.

Martin-Éric Racine, cups-pdf is not really needed to create PDFs out of
scripts. You can call all filters, like pstopdf, ps2pdf, dvipdf, convert
(ImageMagick), ... directly from the command line, even the CUPS filters
in /usr/lib/cups/filter/. From CUPS 1.3 on you can even use the full
file conversion logic of CUPS using the "cupsfilter" command (see "man
cupsfilter"). Then everything is executed with the rights of the user
who calls the script and so any problems of security or file permissions
are avoided.

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cups-pdf fails to generate file
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