Re: PDF viewer for OSX?

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From: Tom Stiller
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:13

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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.

-- 
Tom Stiller

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