Print Save as Postscript...

The page size of my document is 6 x 9. When I "Print > Save as Postscript..." the resulting PS document comes out as US Letter Size. I can't find a way to specify the output size for PS printing/saving. Any suggestions?
Interesting, not perhaps for you, but from the point of view of technical writing. Why? Because of the difference in the printing philosophy for Mac OS (PS and raster) versus Mac OS X (PDF and raster).
In principle, in a PostScript process you have to have the device parameters as defined in the PDD PostScript Printer Definition at the point when the PostScript program is written.
The device parameters define such things as the format facilities of the device, the paper feed facilities of the device, and the colourant models of the device.
In a PDF process you do not have to have the device parameters at the point when the PDF is written, in fact you try to avoid this by writing the page description at a higher level of abstraction.
Things permitted in PostScript and EPS are prohibited in PDF, including such things as programmed screenings (possible in Photoshop) and transfer curves (possible in Photoshop).
Moreover, in so far as possible you should never (meaning never, never) write out PostScript to disk in order to convert that into PDF. Adobe Acrobat Distiller has been a dead product for a decade because PostScript does not support the intelligent profile model of the International Colour Consortium, the intelligent font model of the Unicode Consortium, or indeed transparency.
/hh

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Can't print entire 11x14 PS (v 8.0) file in "Print-Save as Postscript" - Always crops to 8.5x11

MacBook Pro running OS 10.5.8
Layered CMYK file in Photoshop v 8.0 (original CS version)
Trying to save this as a .ps Postscript file so I can open up in Distiller and create PDF for 4 color printing @ 300dpi. Doc size 14x11.
In Preview, everything looks good.
When Print is selected, I get message "Image is larger than page's printable area, some clipping will occur"
Proceeding ahead and saving file as Postscript it's cropped to 8.5 x 11, thus cutting off half of original artwork.
I have: quit PS and restarted, confirmed paper size in Page Setup is set at 14x11, created a virtual PS printer... Nothing is working & I don't see anywhere there's a default page size of 8.5x11.
Also tried creating PDF file in Acrobat 6.0.1 Professional but got error message.
"Create PDF from file" >> "Could not open because it is not a supported file type"
Thanks in advance for your help.

Since Adobe PDF Printer is not available on Snow Leopard all applications that used Adobe PDF Printer to print pdfs will not be able to print pdfs.
See this link: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/509/cpsid_50981.html

On the printing slowness of Postscript produced by the JVM from calls to Graphics.drawString() (Linux/Unix)

Happy new year,
before the holidays my attention was drawn to an issue that supposedly the Postscript produced by the JVM is too big and hence too slow. Here are my findings.
The issue
Text printing via CUPS to native Postscript printers can be slow. Printing a terms and conditions page (17000 characters/page) takes three and a half minutes to print on a Dell 2330 dn laser printer (96 MB,Max speed 33 ppm). The file is about 8 MB in size. To contrast that, rendering the text to a buffered image with 300 DPI and printing the result produces 7 MB of output which prints in 30 seconds on the same printer. More measures for different printers and documents can be found at the end of this post. The issues is registered as "JDK-4627340 : RFE: A way to improve text printing performance for postscript devices" (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4627340) and the proposed workaround is to use printer fonts.
Side remark regarding the workaround
There is a regression that prevents the workaround from working (bug 9008662 at Sun (not yet visible), bug 8023990 at OpenJDK (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023990). Without knowing what other bad side effects this might have, the issue can be resolved by setting the property "sun.awt.fontconfig". On my system I set it to the location of a "fontconfig.properties" of a JVM that does not have the bug (e.g. /home/alex/openjdk_7_b147_jun_11/openjdk/build/linux-i586/bin/java -Dsun.awt.fontconfig="/etc/java-6-openjdk/fontconfig.properties" Print2DtoStream). I also successfully tested the workaround on an Oracle JVM 1.7.0_03-b04.
Back to the main topic
How the JVM draws text if it can't use a standard printer font
Text is drawn with postscript path drawning commands such as "moveto", "lineto" or "curveto". As an example consider the word "ll" which looks something like this:
%N->short for "newpath"
N
%paint first "l"
%M->short for "moveto"
0.76875 11.06 M
%L->short for "lineto"
0.76875 2.468 L
1.823 2.468 L
1.823 11.06 L
0.76875 11.06 L
%p->short for "closepath"
P
%paint second "l"
3.649 11.06 M
3.649 2.468 L
4.703 2.468 L
4.703 11.06 L
3.649 11.06 L
P
The same text could be printed with a printer font using the command "(ll) show" which is much more compact but is available in Java only for the Postscript standard fonts and it isn't working at all right now as explained above.
Is it the file size?
My first thought was that the file size was the source of of slowness and so I wrote a small processor that would detect glyphs, normalize*1 them and place them in a dictionary. Recurring references to the same glyph were replaced by a dictionary reference (This is incidentally the fix proposed by the original author of RFE 4627340). This shrunk the file to about 11% of the original size but the processing time surprisingly doubled.
*1: With "normalizing" I mean applying a translation transform so that the smallest coordinates in the contours of a glyph are exactly 0. In addition I experimented with performing a normalizing scale transform so that all coordinates lie between 0 and 1 so that identical glyphs are detected at arbitrary positions and at different font sizes.
That led to the question to why there is such a big difference in performance between a Type 1 font dictionary and a self constructed dictionary since both contain basically the same drawing instructions. The difference is apparently that fonts are cached and user drawings are not unless explicitly told.
The Postscript "ucache" instruction
Postscript level 2 introduces the "ucache" instruction which seems to be defined for precisely this kind of problem. From the documentation:
"Some PostScript programs define paths that are repeated many times. To optimize the interpretation of such paths, the PostScript language provides a facility called the user path cache. This cache, analogous to the font cache, retains the results from previously interpreted user path definitions. When the PostScript interpreter encounters a user path that is already in the cache, it substitutes the cached results instead of reinterpreting the path definition. "
After adding "ucache" instructions to my filter the speed improved by factor 10.
To illustrate the said the "ll" text from above looked as follows after the transformation:
%definition of the glyph "l" named "p0"
/p0
ucache
0.000 0.000 1.054 8.592 setbbox
0.000 8.592 moveto
0.000 0.000 lineto
1.054 0.000 lineto
1.054 8.592 lineto
0.000 8.592 lineto
closepath
} cvlit def
G
N
0.769 2.468 translate
%draw "l" at 0.769 2.468
p0 ufill
-0.769 -2.468 translate
3.649 2.468 translate
%draw "l" at 3.649 2.468
p0 ufill
-3.649 -2.468 translate
For ucached shapes there is a special compact representation so that the same can be written as follows:
/p0
0.000 0.000 1.054 8.592
0.000 8.592
0.000 0.000
1.054 0.000
1.054 8.592
0.000 8.592
} cvlit def
G
N
0.769 2.468 translate
p0 ufill
-0.769 -2.468 translate
3.649 2.468 translate
p0 ufill
-3.649 -2.468 translate
Interestingly the speed improvement remained the same on a Chinese report that had hardly any character reuse. Upon this observation I changed the filter to not use a dictionary but so simply instruct the interpreter to cache each glyph definition and the performance remained nearly the same.
The initial "ll" text from above looks as follows after this transformation:
N
%paint first "l" cached
0.76875 2.468 1.823 11.06
0.76875 11.06
0.76875 2.468
1.823 2.468
1.823 11.06
0.76875 11.06
} ufill
%paint second "l" cached
3.649 2.468 4.703 11.06
3.649 11.06
3.649 2.468
4.703 2.468
4.703 11.06
3.649 11.06
} ufill
Note that I didn't normalize the shapes.
Why does this improve the performance so vastly if the shape is drawn only once? For a while I thought perhaps that the interpreter would consider two paths which differ only by a translation as being the same but rereading the documentation and looking at the Chinese example in which nearly all characters are unique, disproves this. The relevant part of the documentation reads:
"Caching is based on the value of a user path object. That is, two user paths are considered the same for caching purposes if all of their corresponding elements are equal, even if the objects themselves are not.
A user path placed in the cache need not be explicitly retained in virtual memory. An equivalent user path appearing literally later in the program can take advantage of the cached information. Of course, if it is known that a given user path will be used many times, defining it explicitly in VM avoids creating it multiple times.
User path caching, like font caching, is effective across translations of the user coordinate system, but not across other transformations, such as scaling or rotation. In other words, multiple instances of a given user path painted at different places on the page will take advantage of the user path cache when the current transformation matrix has been altered only by translate. If the CTM has been altered by scale or rotate , the instances will be treated as if they were described by different user paths."
An explanation that would fit the findings
The rasterizer renders the page multiple time (perhaps in order to save memory and produce horizontal strips). On the first rendering the cache is filled and reused on the subsequent renderings thereby improving performance even if all cached items are used only once.
Based upon this theory I hoped that the strip height would grow if I added more memory to the printer but this was not the case on the two printers for which I had memory to test with. Even substantial changes to the available memory (e.g. going from 32 MB to 96 MB) had no impact whatsoever on the performance.
Summary
The issue is not related to the file size as the original requester suspected but very likely due to the uncached rendering. Caching of glyphs can be achieved by using the "ucache" instruction or perhaps by placing the glyphs in font dictionaries and using the "show" operator.
Although reported in 2003, time is apparently not healing this quick enough since printers in the 10,000$ class like the Sharp MX2310U still take a full minute to print 10 pages and a desktop printer may be blocked for over an hour for the same document.
We will now try to use the CUPS filter and leave the printers configured as Postscript printers. If there is interest I can post the single file source of a CUPS filter that performs the inline conversion described. Apart from libl it requires no additional libraries and written using flex it is reasonably lightweight and fast.
I would appreciate any opinion on whether or not the proposed workaround for bug 8023990 (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023990), namely having the system property "sun.awt.fontconfig" pointing to a working fontconfig.properties of a previously installed and working 1.6 version file, is safe.
Measures (Appendix)
"Terms and Conditions" report
Testing a single page "Terms and Conditions" report in "Arial" 8pt (I am aware that "Helvetica" is width compatible and nearly looks the same but in this particular case the line height was also relevant and as explained above, printer fonts are currently not working). The page contains 17000 characters of which some parts are bold and some italic. This is a real world example and to make things worse the requirement is to print the text on the backside of every page on a certain class of reports. I am aware that this is a bit extreme but I also felt that I couldn't dismiss it as being unreasonable.
File "Arial.ps" (7.5 MB Unmodified output of the JVM)
Printer
Printing time
Dell 2330dn 32MB/96MB
3:50 minutes
Lexmark X658de (55 ppm, aprox. 5,000$)
1:45 minutes
HP LaserJet 4240n 64 MB
1:12 minutes
Kyocera Taskalfa 300ci (30 PPM, aprox. 8,000$)
1 minute
HP Color LaserJet 4650 dn 128/384MB
51 seconds
Sharp MX 2310U 512MB (55ppm, aprox. 10,000$)
31 seconds
Arial_inline.ps (8 MB contains "ucache" without normalization and without dictionary)
Printer
Printing time
32MB/96MB
30seconds/30seconds (Improvement by factor 7.7)
Lexmark X658de (55 ppm, aprox. 5,000$)
15 seconds (Improvement by factor 7)
HP LaserJet 4240n 64 MB
47 seconds (Improvement by factor 1.5)
Kyocera Taskalfa 300ci (30 PPM, aprox. 8,000$)
20 seconds (Improvement by factor 5)
HP Color LaserJet 4650 dn 128/384MB
46 seconds (Improvement by factor 1.1)
Sharp MX 2310U 512MB (55ppm, aprox. 10,000$)
14 seconds (Improvement by factor 2)
Asian characters test
Testing 10 pages of Asian characters in the font "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" 12pt where each page contains 49 lines by 40 unique characters. The document contains the 30,000 characters between unicode 0x4e00 and 0x9fff. This is a nonsense stress test but it illustrates that the "ucache" speedup works even though no character is repeated in the report.
Asian.ps (52 MB Unmodified output of the JVM)
Printer
Printing time
Dell 2330dn 32MB/96MB
64 minutes
Lexmark X658de (55 ppm, aprox. 5,000$)
Not measured
HP LaserJet 4240n 64 MB
11 minutes
Kyocera Taskalfa 300ci (30 PPM, aprox. 8,000$)
Not measured
HP Color LaserJet 4650 dn 128/384MB
9:13 minutes
Sharp MX 2310U 512MB (55ppm, aprox. 10,000$)
4:08 minutes
Asian_inline.ps (54 MB contains "ucache" without normalization and without dictionary)
Printer
Printing time
32MB/96MB
5:30 minutes (Improvement by factor 11.6)
Lexmark X658de (55 ppm, aprox. 5,000$)
Not measured
HP LaserJet 4240n 64 MB
3:48 minutes (Improvement by factor 2.9)
Kyocera Taskalfa 300ci (30 PPM, aprox. 8,000$)
Not measured
HP Color LaserJet 4650 dn 128/384MB
2:46 minutes (Improvement by factor 3.4)
Sharp MX 2310U 512MB (55ppm, aprox. 10,000$)
48 seconds (Improvement by factor 5)

Hi Sven,
Will putting the boilerplate in the trailer section allow me to still have it appearing on the back page of the main report? This is where it needs to be as far as the printed report goes - it is duplexed.
Regards
Lanny

Save as PostScript ... not working

Pages '09 version 4.1 (923), OS X Lion 10.7.1
I am having trouble getting a PDF suitable for use by a professional printer. Hope you can help me quickly.
In Pages I have a document that is a single page poster. The page size is set to A0 (1189 mm x 841 mm).
A few years ago, I used to be able to print a PDF/X file directly from the print dialog but all the ColorSync options seem to have gone now.
My printer can distill a postscript file so I chose Save as PostScript but this produces a file with only the bottom left A4 sized portion of the document.
Can anyone suggest how to fix the postscript problem or give me a new way to produce a PDF suitable for sharing with a professional print shop?
Thanks
Ian

Install the abracadabra ColorSync filters:
http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=22&highlight=pdf&mfo rum=iworktipsntrick
IMHO you are taking a huge risk using Pages for professional print, there are too many things to go wrong and just about not tools to prevent them.
Unless your A0 poster is substantially vector graphics, it will be monstrously large for a start.
Peter

Illustrator CS3 can't print/save as PDF

I installed CS3 and the error message:
"The Save as PDF and Save PDF as PostScript options in the Printer Dialog are not supported"
Does this mean that its not picking up on the Adobe Acrobat/Distiller 8?
How would I activate this? Help!!
Same thing with InDesign CS3, can't print/save as PDF.
(this is on a mac)

It may be looking for your RIP ppd, as well as Acrobat 8. Acrobat should have installed all the necessary files, but you might take a look into that. I don't think Distiller is part of the Save-As procedure. You might take a look into "Add-A-Printer" OSX option and select Acrobat 8 there ( although it should have loaded during the install ). Another option is re-install your printer's software and any RIP software ( if available ). Before you do, get whatever updates you can from the manufacturer. It could also mean, after you've done the previous suggestions, you correct permissions on your HD using Apple's Disk Utility. Leave the machine ON overnight so that the Apple Utilities can clean house while you're sleeping.

How do I print to a postscript file with InDesign CS6 without both extensions, .indd.ps?

How do I print to a postscript file without an .indd extension in InDesign CS6? I choose Print, choose a print preset from my print shop and Save. The first time I tried it was blank (the Hide Extension was checked), so I tried to save and got a dialog box that said it cannot be saved as an .indd file (duh), to choose both or .ps. I chose .ps and it was fine, but every time I postscripted it gave me this dialog box until I unchecked Hide Extension. After I did that, every time I postscript it automatically saves both extensions. Not a big deal but it is annoying. I just want it to end with .ps like it used to. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks!!

I have no idea but I am incredibly curious...why are you doing this?
Printing to postscript is a completely archaic workflow. Export to PDF
instead.
Bob
TKnudt <mailto:[email protected]>
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:12 PM
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Save as pdf vs save as postscript

hi,
I see a great difference in my screen between: files saved as pdf and files saved as postscript and then converted into pdf.
My question is:
Does this difference applies when printing?
In other words in order to get the best printing quality (besides of the paper, etc), do I need to save as postscript and then convert to pdf?
Thanks in advance.

That's a good point about lossless and lossy compression.
The real question becomes are you trying to convert vector into raster, or not. If you are, you do lose some information in the process, because vectors are always approximated by raster. While raster regions can have inside and outside topology that is converted into vector polygon of different topology inside and outside, you don't have direction. Vector back to raster you lose the direction of drawing of vectors if they go from point A to point B.
If you did a pure postscript print job, you'll likely gain more information than PDF to postscript or vice versa. A software called Ghostscript I've heard has a much better rendering of postscript prepress than just PDF. Though I've never tried it myself.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Illustrator CS3 Save as Postscript Issue

Utilizing Illustrator CS3 on Mac OSX Tiger -
Unable to output Postscript file. Getting the following error message: "The Save as PDF and Save PDF as PostScript options in the Printer dialog are not supported."
However, we are able to output Postscript from same computer in Illustrator CS2 without issue. Note that in CS3 it is also prompting to re-enter the file name when saving but not in CS2.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks!!

Are you trying to "Print" to a Postscript File?
For "Printer" choose "Adobe Postscript" and for PPD choose "AdobePDF"

How to print / save Structural Graphics

I want to print structural graphics displayed by a standard report. The print button there does not print anything.
Any clues on how I can print / save the structural graphics?
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      EXPORTING
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        load_pd_toolbox      = 'X'
        load_pd_profiles     = 'X'
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Thanks in adv.

Hi,
Why don't you use the function "excel inplace" in the ALV? With the ALV you have some buttons "SORT/TOTAL/FILTER... and you have PRINT and EXCEL INPLACE"?
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Print- Save as PDF from Java applet on a webpage in Safari

I am on a Mac running OS X version 10.8.5 and Safari version 6.1.2. I am using the website www.wordle.net, which uses a Java applet to create a Wordle. The applet has a print button. The website FAQ says I should be able to save a Wordle as a PDF on a Mac. When I try to do this I get a small dialog that simply says "Error whilte printing."
Here is some of the system.log:
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local sandboxd[602] ([557]): java(557) deny file-write-create /private/var/folders/f0/c8r_ry6d4131x95phl6fv7kr0000gn/T/WebKitPlugin-f12Pu6/53 164c620f81b
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=1 label=[0x0-0x96096].com.apple.ImageCaptureExtension2 path=/System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Image Capture Extension.app/Contents/MacOS/Image Capture Extension flags=0
Mar 4 16:57:54 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: ERROR: [ICCommandCenter launchAgent] - Failed to launch agent[1], status: -10810, url: 'file://localhost/System/Library/Image%20Capture/Support/Image%20Capture%20Exte nsion.app/'
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]:
          ***** Failed to launch Image Capture Extension.
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=1 label=[0x0-0x97097].com.apple.ImageCaptureExtension2 path=/System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Image Capture Extension.app/Contents/MacOS/Image Capture Extension flags=0
Mar 4 16:57:54 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: ERROR: [ICCommandCenter launchAgent] - Failed to launch agent[1], status: -10810, url: 'file://localhost/System/Library/Image%20Capture/Support/Image%20Capture%20Exte nsion.app/'
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]:
          ***** Failed to launch Image Capture Extension.
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=1 label=[0x0-0x98098].com.apple.ImageCaptureExtension2 path=/System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Image Capture Extension.app/Contents/MacOS/Image Capture Extension flags=0
Mar 4 16:57:54 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: ERROR: [ICCommandCenter launchAgent] - Failed to launch agent[1], status: -10810, url: 'file://localhost/System/Library/Image%20Capture/Support/Image%20Capture%20Exte nsion.app/'
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]:
          ***** Failed to launch Image Capture Extension.
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=1 label=[0x0-0x99099].com.apple.ImageCaptureExtension2 path=/System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Image Capture Extension.app/Contents/MacOS/Image Capture Extension flags=0
Mar 4 16:57:54 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: ERROR: [ICCommandCenter launchAgent] - Failed to launch agent[1], status: -10810, url: 'file://localhost/System/Library/Image%20Capture/Support/Image%20Capture%20Exte nsion.app/'
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]:
          ***** Failed to launch Image Capture Extension.
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: spawn_via_launchd() failed, errno=1 label=[0x0-0x9a09a].com.apple.ImageCaptureExtension2 path=/System/Library/Image Capture/Support/Image Capture Extension.app/Contents/MacOS/Image Capture Extension flags=0
Mar 4 16:57:54 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: ERROR: [ICCommandCenter launchAgent] - Failed to launch agent[1], status: -10810, url: 'file://localhost/System/Library/Image%20Capture/Support/Image%20Capture%20Exte nsion.app/'
Mar 4 16:57:54 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]:
          ***** Failed to launch Image Capture Extension.
Mar 4 16:57:55 Kroghs-iMac.local java[557]: Printing failed because PMSessionBeginCGDocumentNoDialog() returned -108.
I've removed the Adobe plug-ins from /Library/Plug-Ins
Print->Save to PDF works from Safari when I am on a regular webpage.
Print->Save to PDF works from Pages
Help! I want to make Wordles for the teachers at my kids school for Teacher Appreciation Week.

YES!!!!!!!
I was pulling my hair out last night over this. I noticed the Find function was not working properly. I KNEW there was something in the PDF and Preview was not showing it. I spent 2 hours trying to find someone with a similar Find function problem, but could not find much. Also, it could not copy and paste text. I KNOW it worked before because I had taken notes on this particular PDF and had copy and pasted whole paragraphs for myself into Pages. Which is what got me searching online tonight.
I re-downloaded the same PDF. When first opened in Preview, the Find and copy/paste functions worked. Same thing in Acrobat reader and Acrobat Pro. After confirming this, I re-opened it in Preview, highlighted some text and closed. It asked to Save Changes and I did. I immediately re-opened it, and guess what? Find no longer works and neither does copy/paste. Just to be sure, I tried re-opening in Acrobat reader and Pro; same thing. No copy/paste, corrupted Find feature. Well, copy/paste sort of functions, its just that it pastes a square with an alien head in it that says "Private Use 100000 Plane 16".
And finally, on some PDFs that have not even been saved in Preview, the Find function is not working properly also. It happened on the re-downloaded PDF I just talked about. It finds many instances of the word, bit the left and right arrows next to "Found on X# Pages are greyed out and do not move through the document. Once I go to the left pane that displays page thumbnails and click on a few different ones, THEN it starts working.
So yes, Apple, Preview is corrupting PDF files upon save, AND it is not working properly on other files. Please fix this. PLEASE.
And my specs are the same as Gary; iMac 27 inch Late 2009, Yosemite 10.10.1. Is ANYONE else having this issue with a different Mac?

How to print (save) pages as PDF in Safari?

I´m running Lion, we´re getting better acquainted. However, with Safari I´m having problems when I try to save a web page as a PDF using the Print-Save PDF options. It tells me the file cannot be saved. I try duplicating, exporting, etc, and the only solution I´ve found is to email the document, which, when attatched to the email arrives as a PDF with no problem whatsoever. This is silly (close to dancing infront of my MacBook Pro with a black chicken spitting rum in all directions). Please help!

Hi ...
Might be a plugin causing this..
Quit Safari.
Go to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins
Move the Adobe PDF Browser plugin to the Trash.
Relaunch Safari.

I have set form fields as User required and yet the form still prints/save when empty.

I have set form fields as User required and yet the form still prints/save when empty. I also have an email button on the form but that works correctly by not allowing the user to email the form with the required fields empty.
What script do I need to additionally restrict both printing and saving if the required fields are empty?
You would think that just setting that option would restrict those functions the same as it does for the email button.
Please be specific with your response if you are gracious enough to offer one. I have been searching the forum all morning for the answer to this and I really didn't understand any of the solutions offered to others enough to use those in my own form.
The required fields are:
Social (social security number)
Name
Headquarters
Residence
The next question I have is if there is a way to make individual signature fields mandatory if they are digital signatures?
In other words, I don't want the individual to be able to email the form to the next person if he/she hasn't applied their digital signature.

Saving can always be done, even when mandatory fields are empty. This is by design. And that is correct. Suppose you have a big form and 2 people need to fill it out. How can you fill out a first part and then send it to the second person without saving.
Same for printing. Same for your signature fields.
What I would do, is to put a "watermark" on the form that you show on preSave and prePrint if the form is incomplete. Just a static text on your form. Then the user will see that they need to do more. Also, on preSave and prePrint, you can show a warning popup to tell the user about the missing fields. You can then still cancel their action if the user decides not to save/print anyway.

Help with print booklet to PostScript, Distiller

Please help if you can.
I am printing a booklet from InDesign CS3 to a PostScript file to then create tabloid-size imposed pages to send to a client for printing. It works when I do it with a legal-half booklet, but is failing with letter-size pages going to tabloid imposed pages (1 & 8, 2 & 7, etc.)
All I get is a log. Here is the log:
%%[ Error: invalidaccess; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%%
Stack:
/Font
/Tags
/CompressObjects
-dict-
/Description
/False
/PDFXTrapped
/PDFXRegistryName
/PDFXOutputConditionIdentifier
/PDFXOutputCondition
(None)
/PDFXOutputIntentProfile
[0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0]
/PDFXBleedBoxToTrimBoxOffset
true
/PDFXSetBleedBoxToMediaBox
[0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0]
/PDFXTrimBoxToMediaBoxOffset
true
/PDFXNoTrimBoxError
false
/PDFXCompliantPDFOnly
false
/PDFX3Check
false
/PDFX1aCheck
[/None]
/CheckCompliance
false
/AllowPSXObjects
(None)
/ColorSettingsFile
false
/InternalDisablePathOptimizer
0
/InternalForceUserUnit
false
/InternalDropAllImageData
0
/InternalOffOptimizations
0
/OffOptimizations
/Default
/DefaultRenderingIntent
1
/OPM
/Left
/Binding
true
/Optimize
false
/LockDistillerParams
false
/UsePrologue
true
/PreserveEPSInfo
true
/PreserveCopyPage
false
/PresumeRGBRepresentationIsLossless
true
/ParseDSCCommentsForDocInfo
true
/ParseDSCComments
1
/StartPage
false
/DoThumbnails
-1
/EndPage
false
/EmitDSCWarnings
(sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
/CalRGBProfile
(sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
/sRGBProfile
(Dot Gain 20%)
/CalGrayProfile
(U.S. Web Coated $SWOP$ v2)
/CalCMYKProfile
0.0
/DetectCurves
true
/DetectBlends
false
/CreateJDFFile
1.0
/SyntheticBoldness
0
/DSCReportingLevel
false
/EmbedJobOptions
false
/CreateJobTicket
true
/AutoPositionEPSFiles
/OK
/CannotEmbedFontPolicy
100
/MaxSubsetPct
true
/SubsetFonts
true
/ParseICCProfilesInComments
false
/EmbedOpenType
true
/EmbedAllFonts
/NeverEmbed
/AlwaysEmbed
false
/AllowRelativePathOps
false
/AllowTransparency
1048576
/ImageMemory
true
/PassThroughJPEGImages
true
/ConvertImagesToIndexed
-dict-
/MonoImageDict
/CCITTFaxEncode
/MonoImageFilter
true
/EncodeMonoImages
1.5
/MonoImageDownsampleThreshold
-1
/MonoImageDepth
1200
/MonoImageResolution
/Bicubic
/MonoImageDownsampleType
true
/DownsampleMonoImages
/OK
/MonoImageMinResolutionPolicy
1200
/MonoImageMinResolution
true
/CropMonoImages
false
/AntiAliasMonoImages
-dict-
/JPEG2000GrayImageDict
-dict-
/JPEG2000GrayACSImageDict
-dict-
/GrayImageDict
-dict-
/GrayACSImageDict
/JPEG
/GrayImageAutoFilterStrategy
true
/AutoFilterGrayImages
/DCTEncode
/GrayImageFilter
true
/EncodeGrayImages
1.5
/GrayImageDownsampleThreshold
2
/GrayImageMinDownsampleDepth
-1
/GrayImageDepth
300
/GrayImageResolution
/Bicubic
/GrayImageDownsampleType
true
/DownsampleGrayImages
/OK
/GrayImageMinResolutionPolicy
300
/GrayImageMinResolution
true
/CropGrayImages
false
/AntiAliasGrayImages
-dict-
/JPEG2000ColorImageDict
-dict-
/JPEG2000ColorACSImageDict
-dict-
/ColorImageDict
-dict-
/ColorACSImageDict
/JPEG
/ColorImageAutoFilterStrategy
true
/AutoFilterColorImages
/DCTEncode
/ColorImageFilter
true
/EncodeColorImages
1.5
/ColorImageDownsampleThreshold
1
/ColorImageMinDownsampleDepth
-1
/ColorImageDepth
300
/ColorImageResolution
/Bicubic
/ColorImageDownsampleType
true
/DownsampleColorImages
/OK
/ColorImageMinResolutionPolicy
300
/ColorImageMinResolution
true
/CropColorImages
false
/AntiAliasColorImages
true
/PreserveFlatness
false
/PreserveHalftoneInfo
true
/PreserveDICMYKValues
/LeaveColorUnchanged
/ColorConversionStrategy
true
/PreserveOverprintSettings
/Preserve
/UCRandBGInfo
/Apply
/TransferFunctionInfo
/All
/AutoRotatePages
true
/UseFlateCompression
false
/ASCII85EncodePages
true
/CompressPages
false
/PreserveOPIComments
1.5
/CompatibilityLevel
8000
/CoreDistVersion
-mark-
/Apple-Chancery
/Apple-Chancery
/IERNAS+App

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