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Article #12197Re: PDF viewer for OSX?
From: Justin
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:08
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:08
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Tom Stiller wrote: > In article <siegman-3770B0.15252404112008@news.stanford.edu>, > AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote: > >> In article <1ipvmql.159cffh1g948cgN%nospam@see.signature>, >> nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: >> >>> But are you sure that preview won't let you do the print to pdf thing? I >>> >> Just as one data point, FWIW: >> >> If I open _any_ PDF document with Acrobat 7.0 Standard under OS >> 10.4.11and select File >> Print, the Acrobat Print dialog box that opens >> does have the usual Preview button and the "PDF" drop down menu button >> down at the bottom (along with other options plus a kind of preview pane >> in the dialog itself), and these buttons are not greyed out. >> >> But if I attempt to select either the Preview button or the Save as PDF >> option in the PDF drop-down menu, I get a message "Preview [or Save to >> PDF] is not supported". >> >> I can go ahead and print to a printer from the Acrobat Print dialog >> itself, but these Mac-specific options definitely do not work. >> >> So far as I can tell, this occurs for _all_ PDF documents, not just >> password-protected ones. > > Which is why I recommended the virtual printer: cups-pdf. > I have that installed but I see no way to configure it or print to it.
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