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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.

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John Varela
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