Turned off "save as PDF" with Preview.

Big mistake. This was an original setting under File > Print. How can I turn it back on?

For the online file I was trying to download as a PDF,
Please post a link or an url of the online file you are trying to download for us to check.
all the PDF files on my computer now display with Adobe's logo for the icon, unlike before.
Highlight one of the PDF files on your computer. Go to File/Get Info/Open With - Select Preview.app. Click the "Change All" button.
Repair permissions and restart your computer.

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"there" not "their" - unless I am really confused about what you are doing !
I put a white rectangle over what I wanted to crop out of the pdf I was working on.
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Solved again. Just use the crop and save as another PDF, serves the same function.

HT4075 there is no way to save a PDF in preview anymore

What happened to this software?????????
I used to be able to drag pdf pages from one file to another and then save the PDF with multiple pages. This feature has apparently been removed since I upgraded to Mountain Lion. Preview and other preloaded software is the ONLY reason that I use Mac and not PC machines. If Preview is not restored to its previous level of functionality, I will be going back to PC's and I suggest that everyone else do the same. The changes made to OSX since Mountain Lion have been so bad and so poorly thought out. I cant even operate this machine any more, things like the "app store" are so offensive by their very nature that it angers me to even look at a Mac anymore.
I digress... right now I just need to know how to save a file and I hope someone reads this and wonders why they are so bad at creating software that someone would even have to ask this question........

Nothing comes up in my help that addresses the issue.
right now I just need to know how to save a file
It should have.
You could have just said, "**** you", it would have been a little bit more intellegent of a response.
Not very nice to font to someone who was trying to help you out. You originally posted in the wrong forum - Snow Leopard. Your post was moved by a HOST to the proper forum - Mountain Lion.

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The strange part is that initially the Chinese characters copy fine. It's only after I save the .pdf that copying goes all wonky.
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No. PDF is the worst possible format to use for any kind of editing.
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HT2506 How can I open uscis.gov/files/form/n-400.pdf with Preview?

Problem (A)
When I try to open some PDFs, such as uscis.gov/files/form/n-400.pdf with OS X Preview, I get the error message:
"Please wait...
If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document.
You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac, or Linux® by visiting http://www.adobe.com/go/reader_download.
For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit http://www.adobe.com/go/acrreader.
Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries."
Apple presents Preview as being a better substitute for Adobe Reader, but in this case it does not work at all. (I think this may relate to PDFs with entry fields in them.)
Problem (B)
If I set the documents having this problem to be opened with Adobe Reader instead of Preview, the next time I save them from Adobe Reader, they are reset to open with Preview again.
I thus have to always do Open with… for them, or else set all my PDF documents to be opened with Adobe Reader.
Can anyone offer any workarounds for problem (A) or (B)?
Does anyone know Apple's position on problem (A)? Will they eventually fix Preview so that it opens PDF documents such as the one above, or will Preview only ever work on a sub-set of PDF documents?
If Adobe is refusing to provide Apple the information needed to open certain types of PDF documents, does anyone know Adobe's position on this?
Thank you

What version O/S do you have? 10.7.4 is latest.
I have something for you to try. I'm reading that Lion supports two different types of file-type association. That is, in addition to a global ".PDF opens with Preview" you can also have a file-by-file setting to over-ride the global one and have it open is something else - like Adobe Reader.
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First chainge your global .PDF back to Preview:
http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/25/change-file-associations-in-mac-os-x/
Or reset everything back to defaults:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1282118
Then when you come accross something that won't open in Preview, use this to set just that file to open in Adobe Reader:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/15/easily-set-file-association-in-mac-os-x-lion-usin g-always-open-with-app/
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