Comment 21 for bug 147551

How did you send the test page to the PDF printer? If you send it from system-config-printer (the standard printer setup tool in Ubuntu Gutsy) from hp-toolbox (HP printers only) or by simply printing the file /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps the PDF should arrive in the ~/PDF directory, as the job is sent with your user identity. If you send it from the CUPS web interface the job is not sent with your user identity, as web applications usually do not run with the identity of the user who runs the browser (in most cases the application runs on another machine). The CUPS web interface for example runs as root or lp (I am not sure which user exactly) and the job of printing the test page gets sent with that identity. cups-pdf seems to handle jobs from system users as anonymous. Applications where you get asked for your password before you see the main window or with an "administrator mode" which asks for the password run completely as root and therefore test printouts from them will also go into the directory for anonymous jobs.