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Jim Witte | 4 Aug 22:52

Preview and 'Save as PDF' items dimmed in print dialog in Preview

System 10.4.6
Preview 3.0.4 (398)

   Is there any reason why one PDF document should have the Preview  
and 'Save as PDF' items available, but another one have them  
disabled?  'Save as PS' is not disabled, but when I try to open the  
PS file it creates, it says it can't be converted to PDF.  The file  
I'm trying to print was downloaded from a journal archive (Brain,  
Behavior, and Autoimmunity journal, from ScienceDirect), so it may be  
protected in some way, although I would think that would disallow me  
from printing at all, and/or saving it as *anything*, not just some  
formats.  I have tried restarting Preview, but not restarting the  
entire Mac, nor redownlodin the file.

Jim

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steve harley | 4 Aug 23:46

Re: Preview and 'Save as PDF' items dimmed in print dialog in Preview

they whom i call Jim Witte wrote:
> System 10.4.6
> Preview 3.0.4 (398)
> 
>   Is there any reason why one PDF document should have the Preview and 
> 'Save as PDF' items available, but another one have them disabled?  

the latter is a "view-only" PDF

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Jim Witte | 5 Aug 03:45

Re: Preview and 'Save as PDF' items dimmed in print dialog in Preview

On Aug 4, 2008, at 5:46 PM, steve harley wrote:
>>   Is there any reason why one PDF document should have the Preview  
>> and 'Save as PDF' items available, but another one have them  
>> disabled?
> the latter is a "view-only" PDF

Then why does it allow me to print the thing? (a bug in OSX printing  
architecture?)

   I think both came from ScienceDirect too - I just re-downloaded  
it, and it did the same thing - but other articles from the same  
journal, and even the *same issue* weren't so protected..

Jim

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steve harley | 5 Aug 08:14

Re: Preview and 'Save as PDF' items dimmed in print dialog in Preview

they whom i call Jim Witte wrote:
> 
> On Aug 4, 2008, at 5:46 PM, steve harley wrote:
>>>   Is there any reason why one PDF document should have the Preview 
>>> and 'Save as PDF' items available, but another one have them disabled?
>> the latter is a "view-only" PDF
> 
> Then why does it allow me to print the thing? (a bug in OSX printing 
> architecture?)

"view only" may have been a slightly wrong name; i don't know all 
the different PDF security flags' names, but i'm sure that's why 
you see the behavior; the idea is that if one could save as PDF 
through the print dialog, one could in effect alter the PDF; 
Apple prevents that so that the security flag is not violated; in 
an earlier version of Mac OS X, Apple didn't obey that flag, so 
one was able to create a PDF "copy" that had the security 
stripped out

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LuKreme | 8 Aug 08:39

Re: Preview and 'Save as PDF' items dimmed in print dialog in Preview

On 4-Aug-2008, at 14:54, Jim Witte wrote:
> System 10.4.6
> Preview 3.0.4 (398)
>
>  Is there any reason why one PDF document should have the Preview  
> and 'Save as PDF' items available, but another one have them disabled?

Yes, some PDFs are 'locked'. Some PDFs are locked in different ways.

Contact the original source.

>

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