🚀 go-pugleaf

John Varela wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:43:20 -0500, Richard Maine wrote
> (in article <1ipvmql.159cffh1g948cgN%nospam@see.signature>):
> 
>> Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>>>> Preview can Print to PDF.
>>> Not when the source is a PDF document that intentionally
>>> has form completion enabled but saving disabled.
>> Really? I understand that you can't save it (and thus can't get an
>> editable copy). I've found that really annoying in the past myself when
>> I had a form half filled in and wanted to come back and do teh rest
>> later.
>>
>> But are you sure that preview won't let you do the print to pdf thing? I
>> thought that was just part of the general print dialog interface and not
>> directly under preview's control. I'm a suspicious that people are
>> confusing preview's save with the pdf option in the print dialog.
>>
>> I could certainly be wrong. I don't have one of those annoying forms
>> handy to check with. 
> 
> I do have one handy, and as I reported else thread, it works just as 
> you suggest.
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/john.varela/temp/f8283.pdf
> 
>> But I also see a possibility that people might be
>> confusing the two ways of getting a pdf file. I know that the preview
>> SAVE option won't do the trick here, but I'm not so sure about print to
>> pdf.
>>
>> For the OP's purpose, it seems like a print to pdf ought to be
>> sufficient if it works. I quite agree that, even if it works, it is
>> awkward for other purposes, as it doesn't leave you with a form that is
>> still editable.
> 

My goal was to send it to my prof before it was due so he could tell me 
whats wrong.  But for now I'll do it the old fashioned way, print it out 
fill it out by hand and turn it in tomorrow.