Save as PDF loses columns

I have an HTML page that contains text in columns, and although the columns look good in Safari, when I ask Safari to save that page to PDF, the text is all jammed into one column.
I tried both:
<style type="text/css">
.two-col {
-moz-column-count: 2;
-moz-column-gap: 20px;
-webkit-column-count: 2;
-webkit-column-gap: 20px;
</style>
and:
<style type="text/css">
.two-col {
-moz-column-width: 3in;
-moz-column-gap: 20px;
-webkit-column-width: 3in;
-webkit-column-gap: 20px;
-column-width: 3in;
-column-gap: 20px;
</style>
Is there any way to get columnar data to export correctly into a PDF?
Thanks,
Chris

I realize my original post might be misleading ... when I said "the text is all jammed into one column" I didn't mean one column of the correct width, I meant that there is only one column and it fills the page width (as if I had never specified there should be e multiple columns).

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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.

Help!!! I can't save multiple PDF documents into one single PDF! Need answers!

Hello!
I'm trying to save a very large PDF file. I'm using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. There are about 200 plus pages and I'm trying to save merged PDF files as one single PDF document. I've compressed the PDF's as much as I could prior to saving. For some reason, the process of saving it as a single file takes a long time and usually doesn't work. Will a higher version of Adobe be faster? I was told that Adobe X is a 32 bit program and that could be why it's running slow. I'm unfamiliar with how it all works so I'm hoping someone could offer a simple explanation as to why this is happening and a solution on how to make something as simple as saving a document, go faster.
Thank you!
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Best to keep the replies in the other post, but I wanted to comment on something you said "I was told that Adobe X is a 32 bit program and that could be why it's running slow." Yes, it's a 32 bit program. No, it's complete nonsense to say that 32 bit programs run slow. There seems to be a general belief that 64 bit is better because, well, because, um, because it's a bigger number so it must be, right? Sorry, I'm not mocking you, but there is such nonsense about this, that I think software makers are having to put a lot of effort into making 64 bit software for no good reason at all.

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