Save as PDF issue on Mac

I am trying to export a set of images to PDF. The function runs and then brings up an error message that the file is not available for writing

Like I said, the file doesn't have to be open. Was the file with the same filename you were creating the PDF as already existing in your system? If it was, even if you had opened it in Finder and selected the file for Preview in Finder, PDF writing will fail sometimes.
Either that, or, a permission issue. Can you try creating on a different location or check folder permissions to ensure you have permissions to write to that file? Or, can you try with a different filename in the same or a different location?

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My computer runs both Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Mac OS X 10.9,
I skipped 10.7 and 10.8.
On 10.6.8 I double-click on a txt file that has no line more
than 80 characters long and it brings up TextEdit. Then I
click File->Print->pdf->"save as pdf" and it creates a pdf file
that also has no line more than 80 characters long.
However, doing the exact same thing (using the same txt
file as on 10.6.8) on 10.9 produces a pdf file that has
wrapped lines and the font is much bigger than the txt file.
I get the same results when I click File->"Export as pdf".
Then I noticed File->"Export as pdf"->"Show details" has a
check next to "Rewrap contents to fit page". After unchecking
this then the pdf font is smaller as I get on 10.6.8, but the
pdf file stills has wrapped lines, which I cannot live with.
Why the behavior difference from 10.6.8 to 10.9?
Can it be corrected?
Thanks
Ron

My experience in Mavericks is similar enough that I "voted" on your question. Something very odd going on. A straight export from TextEdit yeilds a very thin strip of text in the resulting PDF while using your suggestion of Rewrap to page produces tiny, tiny text.

Writable PDF Issues on MAC Platform - HELP!!

Is this normal for writable PDFs to not function correctly on MACS? I am not having any problems on my PC or on different PC browsers. After testing my form on a MAC, I found many problems. Date and numerical fields are not working. My date doesn't come up and users can enter anything in the numerical fields. My reset button only cleared the checkboxes, but only sometimes. The tab order is also not functioning correctly.
Do I need to do something different for MAC's? Please HELP!! Everything works fine on PC's. I work for UC Santa Cruz and most of our campus uses MAC's.
I was trying to get away from using excel for forms, due to all of the issues that we have been having do to workstation and printer setups etc.
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Thank you Chris!!!
Yes, I was using the built in functionality.
The Mac I was testing on did not have Adobe Reader on it. I was able to hunt down another Mac where I could install Adobe Reader. I wasn't able to install anything on the Mac that I used yesterday. My form works as it should.
Thank you for getting back in touch with me so soon. I just started intorducing writable pdfs for our departments and I am very happy that it works across differnt platfroms as I thought it would.
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Make a PDF with a Mac, NOT using Mac PDF maker

I am suffering from blurry text when making a PDF in Mac OS 10.6 (using "Save as PDF" in the Mac printing dialogue).
The software company has confirmed the problem. They suggested using CutePDF to make a PDF because it does a better job. CutePDF is Windows only.

Also, could it be a problem with the software you are using (you didn't mention what it is?)
It is ViaCAD 2D. My text is razor-sharp when viewed from within ViaCAD. However, when I make a PDF of my drawing using, File > Print > Print PDF my text comes out blurry.
http://www.punchcad.com/p-6-viacad-2d3d.aspx
From the ViaCAD Fourm:
"This is an old and contentious issue that appears to effect some Mac users and not others.
The only work around I have found is to print to EPS (Postscript) in the print dialog, and then convert the EPS to PDF in Preview. Sadly the EPS output from the print dialog is also broken in that it will not support anything larger than 8.5 X 11, so that will not work for you.
The other work around might be to try and export the whole drawing to Illustrator using the File / Export dialog, but again that is also sometimes buggy for some people. The only good news is that the output that appears blurry on your Mac will probably look fine on a PC, or even another Mac as this does appear to be a very system dependent bug (which is why it never gets fixed)."

Can't open pdfs; can't save pdfs on my MAC Computer

Hi I have problems with my Adobe Reader on my MAC computer…Mac OSX version 10.7.5. It began when I did update my current Adobe Reader. Eversince, I always get a window saying "Adobe Reader could not open "_______" because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and was not correctly decoded."
I couldn't open any pdf file on my desktop. I also couldn't save a paper as a pdf form but it looks like a notebook file on my desktop…not the normal red pdf file.
I am not sure how I can correct the problem.

Hi jcs174,
If you just want to save a pdf opened in Safari to your machine use the save as option from within the Reader window. Just click on any of the buttons highlighted in below screenshots to Save a pdf at any location on your machine.
or
To summarize the issue, if you had opened an Internet PDF in a browser plug-in, you must use the save feature in the plug-in, not the Safari File > PDF Export, or File > Save As...
Please let us know if this solution works for you and you are able to save and view PDFs files locally.
Regards,
Shashi

TURBOTAX 2014 CD DOES NOT PERMIT OFFLINE PRINT OR SAVE TO PDF. YOU CAN ONLY SAVE TO PDF OR PRINT IF ONLINE. BIG SECURITY ISSUE. INTUIT IN WSJ ARTICLE BLAMES APPLE, SAYING APP STORE SOFTWARE RESULTED IN THIS. TRUE?

Starting this year, Turbotax CD/download versions will not permit people to print tax forms when offline. If you try to print while not connected to the Internet, you receive the warning “There was a problem connecting to Intuit’s Secure Print Service. Please check your Internet connection or try again later.” Indeed, Paragraph 9 of the Intuit Software End User License Agreement states: "You may save your return as a PDF file and understand it may be processed on Intuit servers, not as part of the Software."
Even if you wish to protect your data by not exposing it to the Internet, Turbotax will not let you without sharing your entire return first with them. They prohibit you from only printing locally on home, cable-connected printers.
The result of this is that people who tried to be safe by never going online with tax data, are this year being forced by Intuit software to expose all their sensitive tax information files to the Internet and Intuit print server, even though they do not wish to. Turbotax is putting you at risk.
On Feb 19 the Wall Street Journal quoted an Intuit spokesperson blaming Apple: According to Julie Miller, an Intuit spokeswoman, TurboTax made the change “because the Mac product requires a special, third-party code library to support offline printing.” And she says, “based on Apple App Store guidelines, we could no longer distribute the third-party library with our software.” She said the change in the TurboTax Mac software was first made for 2013 tax returns, but last year customers had the option of printing returns without being connected to the Internet.
So is Apple to blame that I now have to expose my sensitive tax data to Intuit just to be allowed to save to PDF on my hard disk? And it's all Apple's fault?
Can anyone clarify this?

Thank you for this an the other posts. Particularly for Barney,
I have just discovered that Turbotax actually permits you to print (and save to PDF) documents from the Help
Center built into the program, even when you are OFFLINE. Works just like normal printing is supposed to. It just won't let you print actual tax forms. So I guess they were willing to violate Apple’s rules when you print information from their help center offline, but you just can't do the same with your own tax forms. Clearly this shows that what Intuit told Forbes was a fabrication.
They do in fact have the proper code in the program for printing and saving to PDF. They just deny you usage of that code for printing your tax returns, which they want to copy. I don’t think there can be any doubt about what they are doing. Surely they are not deceiving apple by allowing the limited print function?
We can only hope that a brave journalist will challenge them on this, since Intuit will not respond to customers.
Thank you for any views on this points.

How do I save as pdf in Mozilla version 28 on Mac using Mavericks OS.

When I select File, Print, I usually have the option of "printing to a pdf" or "saving as a pdf". I'm using the Mavericks OS on a mac. Previously this option was available in the print screen before reinstalling Firefox. I have looked in the printer pull down menu as well as expanded the details tab. I can't figure out how to save a page as a pdf using the print menu. If I try another method to save a web page from the File, Save Page As, there is no option for a pdf file extension. Any help?

Hi,
I'm not sure what happened but you can use the following add-on to save any webpage as a PDF with just one click! All you have to do is press the button on your toolbar and there! It saves the web page as a PDF.
*https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-as-pdf/

"Save to Adobe PDF" missing in Mac print dialog

I've just upgraded to a new machine, and the "Save to Adobe PDF" option is missing from the PDF drop-down menu in the print dialogue. I'm running Mac OS 10.8.3 and CS 6. I believe that Acrobat X is supposed to automatically install this option into the main print dialog; what can I do to get it installed if it got left out of the initial CS6 installaion?

OK thank you. I feel like I'm still not quite getting my question across. I don't think that PDF Maker is what I was using last week before I got a new machine; wasn't that the thing that showed up in the upper portion of the Print dialog, in amongst your physical printers? That is not what I was using. I was using the Save to Adobe PDF.app (an Automator app) that stays in the PDF Services folder in the Library. You access it via the PDF button in the bottom left of the Print dialog. This was using Acrobat 9 and OS 10.6.
Your description above makes it sound like when I go to that button I would get a contextual menu that lets me choose the quality of the PDF. I don't have that choice. This is the contextual menu I get under PDF in the Print dialog:
I used to have an additional entry there in the middle section called Save to Adobe PDF. That brought up a dialog with a drop down menu that showed all of the preset settings I have made for PDF creation, and I could choose my quality there, choose a location, and save. I had full control over all the settings. I just need a choice that brings up that dialog, and Save as PDF doesn't do it (it just uses the native OS PDF generator).
The second method does not work on my machine either. If I try to drag a Word doc into Acrobat it tells me it is not a supported file type, and says "To create an Adobe PDF document, go to the source application. Then print the document to Adobe PDF." this indicates to me that somewhere I should still have the ability to choose Adobe PDF rather than Mac OS PDF.
I can save to PostScript and drop the file onto Distiller -- as long as the Distiller settings are set correctly already, because it starts creating the PDF immediately with no dialog in between to make choices. I can live with that, but I would rather have my Automator workflow back to do it in one step. (sadly I don't know enough about Automator right now to easily do this myself, but maybe this is a good chance to learn.)
I know that I have seen this workflow mentioned as something that is installed along with Acrobat X but maybe people are mistaken about that and it was just left over from a previous install. I know for sure that the workflow that was working on the old machines was outdated; it was 32-bit and can't even be opened in the current version of Automator. So the old one clearly won't work any more. For now I'm going to set up a Distill folder on my desktop with the settings I use most often, and direct my PS files there.
Thanks for the detailed reply even though I can't quite make it all work!

Can't use Mac OS X save as PDF default dialog

Hi,
I am using Adobe Reader 9.1.0. I can't save a filled in PDF form to disk using the standard PDF option in Mac OS X default print dialog. Adobe pops up a message warning that "Can't save while printing, use Save As menu". I cant save the PDF form, and can't print it right here on a fisical printer.
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Mariano.

Since you are not using Acrobat but you are not posting in the correct forum. You cannot save form data without having a specially enabled pdf file. Adobe doesn't seem to allow you to get around this restriction by saving via the Apple Pdf print mechanism.

Cannot Read Font Metrics Issue on Save As PDF

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On saving a document as PDF, the FrameMaker Console displays the message:
The font file may be damaged.
maker: Cannot read font metrics from font file named Tahoma-Bold.
The PDF is created but it contains squares in place of letters.
This only happens for one document within my book.
I have removed and reinstalled Tahoma, with no effect.
What has happened and what do I need to do to enable save to PDF for this document.
I am using FrameMaker 9.0 installed as part of Technical Suite 2 and running on Windows 7 professional.
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Claire

I'm on FrameMaker 10, installed about a month ago, and suddenly, yesterday, I started getting this exact error on PDFing a book I'd previously had no trouble with. Nothing apparently changed in my setup between everything working fine and getting these "the font file may be damaged" console errors. Interestingly, it's on exactly the same font as reported by Claire and MichaelH; Tahoma and Tahoma-Bold are listed as the troublesome fonts. These are not the commonplace Frame console "missing font" errors -- they totally mess up the PDF.
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Save As PDF file size issues

I am currently using Word 2008 to produce a club newsletter for email distribution. The Word (.docx) file can be up to 2.4MB in size. When I use Print > Save to PDF the resulting file can be as large as 12MB! I tried using the CUPS-PDF virtual printer option and got a file 26MB is size!!
A friend used his Windoze machine to print to PDF and got the file size I was after at just over 1MB. I also tried the Adobe Online "convert to PDF service" and got file sizes lower than 1MB.
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Peter Ongley wrote:
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It's not built-in to iOS, but there are a few apps that say that they can convert documents or web pages to PDFs (not that I've got any of them) - I just did a search for 'convert to pdf' in the store and got a few hits.
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Hi
Just bought a CD for my Econs subject, has a lot of pdf files which I hope to load to my iPad.
1. Where do I save these pdf files on my Mac?
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Thanks v much to anyone who can help

You first need to decide which app(s) that you are going to copy the PDF2 to on the iPad - unlike a 'normal' computer the iPad doesn't have a file system, and everything on it has to be associated with an app. Apps that support PDFs include free apps such as Apple's iBooks and Adobe Reader, and paid-for apps such as GoodReader.
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