Hello folks!

Sometimes I receive documents I'd like to save as PDFs from the print
dialog, but the dialog won't let me. It wouldn't even allow a preview.
This is really annoying.
Is there a way around this, maybe a "fake" printer driver?


Gerhard

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On 2008-04-26 14:51:45 -0400, deaf_null@hotmail.com (Gerhard Torges) said:

> Hello folks!
> 
> Sometimes I receive documents I'd like to save as PDFs from the print
> dialog, but the dialog won't let me. It wouldn't even allow a preview.
> This is really annoying.
> Is there a way around this, maybe a "fake" printer driver?
> 
> 
> Gerhard

CUPS-PDF <http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx>

Another way is simply to print to file. (the option in OS-X isn't as
obvious, but it is still there).

You generate a .PS file which has any PDF restrictions removed (but also
PDF attrubtes, bookmarks, links etc). And then you can use preview to
convert the .PS to .PDF file.

In article <481576af$0$20590$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Another way is simply to print to file. (the option in OS-X isn't as
> obvious, but it is still there).
> 
> You generate a .PS file which has any PDF restrictions removed (but also
> PDF attrubtes, bookmarks, links etc). And then you can use preview to
> convert the .PS to .PDF file.

Just don't try printing directly to pdf; in some cases part or all of 
the file will not print. We tripped over that this past weekend.