Safari Mail/Save as PDF reporting "Error while printing"

It's only just started doing this today, after I installed the updates that came with Mavericks.
I have been using this feature for 5 years to email receipts to clients... Please tell me that this isn't an ongoing problem!
I hit command-P to print, then select PDF > Mail PDF. Worked absolutely fine before. Don't know what has happened to cause it to behave differently.
Thank you!
Rory

I could print/save as .pdf until I did my latest software upgrade. Now I get "error while printing", and have been unable to find a solution. this is quite a problem for me, because I do a lot of research on the Web and have saved my results for years in pdf. Have you found a solution?
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