Re: Print to pdf problem - FIXED
Hi Mike, Thanks for letting the list know the solution to your problem. Kind Regards, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > On 16 Jun 2017, at 3:46 pm, Mike Murray <mdmur...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > Re my earlier email (below). > > The villain was a new brother printer! > Somehow it was over-riding the ‘print to pdf’ function and insisting that the > page size needed to be A4 or smaller. > Changing the preferred printer to one of my others now allows me to do as > I’ve always done. > > Carry on, all’s well again. > > Cheers > Mike > >> On 12 Jun 2017, at 10:36 am, Mike Murray <mdmur...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >> >> Hi muggers >> >> For many years I’ve created large family tree charts in Reunion, using the >> page setup function to specify the page size, then saved them as PDFs using >> the Print/save as PDF function. Officeworks then happily prints the files >> direct from the correctly sized PDF file. >> >> Today for the first time I can’t do that…the print dialogue says ‘invalid >> page size’ and the suggested page size is greyed out unless I tick the scale >> to size box, then only shows page sizes that my attached printers will >> print. The resulting PDF files are reduced to the printer files, which is no >> good (scaling them up again gets all the shadowing wrong). >> >> This seems to be a change in something…has anyone else had that problem? Is >> there a fix? >> >> iMac 27in, late 2013; Sierra 10.12.5 >> >> Cheers >> Mike >> >> >> >> >> Mike Murray and Lesley Silvester >> TimeTrackers >> PO Box 197 >> Melville, 6956 >> Western Australia >> >> Tel (08) 9339 8078 >> International +618 9339 8078 >> Mob 0407 669 376 >> >> British and Australian genealogical and historical research, >> education, publishing, film-making and DNA consulting >> >> www.timetrackers.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
Re: Print to pdf problem - FIXED
Re my earlier email (below). The villain was a new brother printer! Somehow it was over-riding the ‘print to pdf’ function and insisting that the page size needed to be A4 or smaller. Changing the preferred printer to one of my others now allows me to do as I’ve always done. Carry on, all’s well again. Cheers Mike > On 12 Jun 2017, at 10:36 am, Mike Murray <mdmur...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > Hi muggers > > For many years I’ve created large family tree charts in Reunion, using the > page setup function to specify the page size, then saved them as PDFs using > the Print/save as PDF function. Officeworks then happily prints the files > direct from the correctly sized PDF file. > > Today for the first time I can’t do that…the print dialogue says ‘invalid > page size’ and the suggested page size is greyed out unless I tick the scale > to size box, then only shows page sizes that my attached printers will print. > The resulting PDF files are reduced to the printer files, which is no good > (scaling them up again gets all the shadowing wrong). > > This seems to be a change in something…has anyone else had that problem? Is > there a fix? > > iMac 27in, late 2013; Sierra 10.12.5 > > Cheers > Mike > > > > > Mike Murray and Lesley Silvester > TimeTrackers > PO Box 197 > Melville, 6956 > Western Australia > > Tel (08) 9339 8078 > International +618 9339 8078 > Mob 0407 669 376 > > British and Australian genealogical and historical research, > education, publishing, film-making and DNA consulting > > www.timetrackers.com.au <http://www.timetrackers.com.au/> > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
Print to pdf problem - has something changed?
Hi muggers For many years I’ve created large family tree charts in Reunion, using the page setup function to specify the page size, then saved them as PDFs using the Print/save as PDF function. Officeworks then happily prints the files direct from the correctly sized PDF file. Today for the first time I can’t do that…the print dialogue says ‘invalid page size’ and the suggested page size is greyed out unless I tick the scale to size box, then only shows page sizes that my attached printers will print. The resulting PDF files are reduced to the printer files, which is no good (scaling them up again gets all the shadowing wrong). This seems to be a change in something…has anyone else had that problem? Is there a fix? iMac 27in, late 2013; Sierra 10.12.5 Cheers Mike Mike Murray and Lesley Silvester TimeTrackers PO Box 197 Melville, 6956 Western Australia Tel (08) 9339 8078 International +618 9339 8078 Mob 0407 669 376 British and Australian genealogical and historical research, education, publishing, film-making and DNA consulting www.timetrackers.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
Re: How to print as PDF from Safari Reader
You can do this in Safari 6.1 as well. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 29/10/2013, at 8:51 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Alan, In Safari 7.0 Mavericks: File Print - PDF Save as PDF when viewing a page in Reader Brings up the Print Dialog window etc Still works the same as before. If you click at the bottom of the page it takes your out of Reader Mode back to normal view of the page. Cheers, Ronni On 29 Oct 2013, at 7:38 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Safari 6.1 seems to have hidden - or dropped - one of my favourite features: to select the printer when a page is viewed in the Reader mode. Earlier Safari versions would bring up a toolbar of icons when the mouse cursor was bumped at the bottom of the page. Menu included a printer. Safari 6.1 does not do this, requiring me to select the printer from a standard tool bar menu. (But I do appreciate the font size adjustment of the page in Reader mode!)I seem to recall there was also a slightly different toolbar displayed when a PDF file was viewed in Safari. Question Part 1: Can the floating Reader-view toolbar(s) be restored? I've been printing-to-PDF the various help/blog pages about Mavericks for later perusal. Question Part 2: Is there a single-click option that will select the sequence File - Print - PDF - Save as PDF ?? Regards Alan Alan Smith iMac late 2012, OS X 10.8.5 Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: How to print as PDF from Safari Reader
Hi again Alan, In Reader Mode, Command+P brings up the Print dialogue window. Click on PDF and you will see Menu for 'Save as PDF', Add PDF to iBooks, Mail PDF, Send PDF via Messages etc. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 30 Oct 2013, at 8:05 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, Command+P still works to display the Print Window in Reader Mode or normal view mode. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 29 Oct 2013, at 9:21 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Daniel and Ronni Its the floating menu that has disappeared: it may then be a Preview issue rather than a Safari one. Will look into that when I have more time.I don't have Adobe Reader installed (I think) but Adobe gets very tricky with coercing users into downloading that x*x* app! Gloomy news, Ronni, from Mavericks. One step forward, two steps back. I take it Safari 7 doesn't have the floating toolbar in Reader mode either. Regards Alan On 29/10/2013, at 9:02 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Also note, the little floating menu for these things can differ if you have Adobe Reader installed, (or updated) as sometimes it's the Preview floating window and other times it can be the Adobe Reader floating window. (normally can tell by the number of choices available, and/or the Adobe Reader symbol on the far left (I think it is). Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 29/10/2013, at 8:51 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, In Safari 7.0 Mavericks: File Print - PDF Save as PDF when viewing a page in Reader Brings up the Print Dialog window etc Still works the same as before. If you click at the bottom of the page it takes your out of Reader Mode back to normal view of the page. Cheers, Ronni On 29 Oct 2013, at 7:38 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Safari 6.1 seems to have hidden - or dropped - one of my favourite features: to select the printer when a page is viewed in the Reader mode. Earlier Safari versions would bring up a toolbar of icons when the mouse cursor was bumped at the bottom of the page. Menu included a printer. Safari 6.1 does not do this, requiring me to select the printer from a standard tool bar menu. (But I do appreciate the font size adjustment of the page in Reader mode!)I seem to recall there was also a slightly different toolbar displayed when a PDF file was viewed in Safari. Question Part 1: Can the floating Reader-view toolbar(s) be restored? I've been printing-to-PDF the various help/blog pages about Mavericks for later perusal. Question Part 2: Is there a single-click option that will select the sequence File - Print - PDF - Save as PDF ?? Regards Alan Alan Smith iMac late 2012, OS X 10.8.5 Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
How to print as PDF from Safari Reader
Safari 6.1 seems to have hidden - or dropped - one of my favourite features: to select the printer when a page is viewed in the Reader mode. Earlier Safari versions would bring up a toolbar of icons when the mouse cursor was bumped at the bottom of the page. Menu included a printer. Safari 6.1 does not do this, requiring me to select the printer from a standard tool bar menu. (But I do appreciate the font size adjustment of the page in Reader mode!)I seem to recall there was also a slightly different toolbar displayed when a PDF file was viewed in Safari. Question Part 1: Can the floating Reader-view toolbar(s) be restored? I've been printing-to-PDF the various help/blog pages about Mavericks for later perusal. Question Part 2: Is there a single-click option that will select the sequence File - Print - PDF - Save as PDF ?? Regards Alan Alan Smith iMac late 2012, OS X 10.8.5 Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: How to print as PDF from Safari Reader
Hi Alan, In Safari 7.0 Mavericks: File Print - PDF Save as PDF when viewing a page in Reader Brings up the Print Dialog window etc Still works the same as before. If you click at the bottom of the page it takes your out of Reader Mode back to normal view of the page. Cheers, Ronni On 29 Oct 2013, at 7:38 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Safari 6.1 seems to have hidden - or dropped - one of my favourite features: to select the printer when a page is viewed in the Reader mode. Earlier Safari versions would bring up a toolbar of icons when the mouse cursor was bumped at the bottom of the page. Menu included a printer. Safari 6.1 does not do this, requiring me to select the printer from a standard tool bar menu. (But I do appreciate the font size adjustment of the page in Reader mode!)I seem to recall there was also a slightly different toolbar displayed when a PDF file was viewed in Safari. Question Part 1: Can the floating Reader-view toolbar(s) be restored? I've been printing-to-PDF the various help/blog pages about Mavericks for later perusal. Question Part 2: Is there a single-click option that will select the sequence File - Print - PDF - Save as PDF ?? Regards Alan Alan Smith iMac late 2012, OS X 10.8.5 Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: How to print as PDF from Safari Reader
Also note, the little floating menu for these things can differ if you have Adobe Reader installed, (or updated) as sometimes it's the Preview floating window and other times it can be the Adobe Reader floating window. (normally can tell by the number of choices available, and/or the Adobe Reader symbol on the far left (I think it is). Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 29/10/2013, at 8:51 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, In Safari 7.0 Mavericks: File Print - PDF Save as PDF when viewing a page in Reader Brings up the Print Dialog window etc Still works the same as before. If you click at the bottom of the page it takes your out of Reader Mode back to normal view of the page. Cheers, Ronni On 29 Oct 2013, at 7:38 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Safari 6.1 seems to have hidden - or dropped - one of my favourite features: to select the printer when a page is viewed in the Reader mode. Earlier Safari versions would bring up a toolbar of icons when the mouse cursor was bumped at the bottom of the page. Menu included a printer. Safari 6.1 does not do this, requiring me to select the printer from a standard tool bar menu. (But I do appreciate the font size adjustment of the page in Reader mode!)I seem to recall there was also a slightly different toolbar displayed when a PDF file was viewed in Safari. Question Part 1: Can the floating Reader-view toolbar(s) be restored? I've been printing-to-PDF the various help/blog pages about Mavericks for later perusal. Question Part 2: Is there a single-click option that will select the sequence File - Print - PDF - Save as PDF ?? Regards Alan Alan Smith iMac late 2012, OS X 10.8.5 Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: How to print as PDF from Safari Reader
Hi Daniel and Ronni Its the floating menu that has disappeared: it may then be a Preview issue rather than a Safari one. Will look into that when I have more time.I don't have Adobe Reader installed (I think) but Adobe gets very tricky with coercing users into downloading that x*x* app! Gloomy news, Ronni, from Mavericks. One step forward, two steps back. I take it Safari 7 doesn't have the floating toolbar in Reader mode either. Regards Alan On 29/10/2013, at 9:02 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Also note, the little floating menu for these things can differ if you have Adobe Reader installed, (or updated) as sometimes it's the Preview floating window and other times it can be the Adobe Reader floating window. (normally can tell by the number of choices available, and/or the Adobe Reader symbol on the far left (I think it is). Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 29/10/2013, at 8:51 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, In Safari 7.0 Mavericks: File Print - PDF Save as PDF when viewing a page in Reader Brings up the Print Dialog window etc Still works the same as before. If you click at the bottom of the page it takes your out of Reader Mode back to normal view of the page. Cheers, Ronni On 29 Oct 2013, at 7:38 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Safari 6.1 seems to have hidden - or dropped - one of my favourite features: to select the printer when a page is viewed in the Reader mode. Earlier Safari versions would bring up a toolbar of icons when the mouse cursor was bumped at the bottom of the page. Menu included a printer. Safari 6.1 does not do this, requiring me to select the printer from a standard tool bar menu. (But I do appreciate the font size adjustment of the page in Reader mode!)I seem to recall there was also a slightly different toolbar displayed when a PDF file was viewed in Safari. Question Part 1: Can the floating Reader-view toolbar(s) be restored? I've been printing-to-PDF the various help/blog pages about Mavericks for later perusal. Question Part 2: Is there a single-click option that will select the sequence File - Print - PDF - Save as PDF ?? Regards Alan Alan Smith iMac late 2012, OS X 10.8.5 Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: How to print as PDF from Safari Reader
On 29/10/2013, at 9:21 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Daniel and Ronni Its the floating menu that has disappeared: it may then be a Preview issue rather than a Safari one. Will look into that when I have more time.I don't have Adobe Reader installed (I think) but Adobe gets very tricky with coercing users into downloading that x*x* app! No, it's a documented Mavericks issue. Nothing to do with either Preview or Safari really. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: How to print as PDF from Safari Reader
Hi Alan, Command+P still works to display the Print Window in Reader Mode or normal view mode. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 29 Oct 2013, at 9:21 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Daniel and Ronni Its the floating menu that has disappeared: it may then be a Preview issue rather than a Safari one. Will look into that when I have more time.I don't have Adobe Reader installed (I think) but Adobe gets very tricky with coercing users into downloading that x*x* app! Gloomy news, Ronni, from Mavericks. One step forward, two steps back. I take it Safari 7 doesn't have the floating toolbar in Reader mode either. Regards Alan On 29/10/2013, at 9:02 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Also note, the little floating menu for these things can differ if you have Adobe Reader installed, (or updated) as sometimes it's the Preview floating window and other times it can be the Adobe Reader floating window. (normally can tell by the number of choices available, and/or the Adobe Reader symbol on the far left (I think it is). Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 29/10/2013, at 8:51 PM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Alan, In Safari 7.0 Mavericks: File Print - PDF Save as PDF when viewing a page in Reader Brings up the Print Dialog window etc Still works the same as before. If you click at the bottom of the page it takes your out of Reader Mode back to normal view of the page. Cheers, Ronni On 29 Oct 2013, at 7:38 pm, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Safari 6.1 seems to have hidden - or dropped - one of my favourite features: to select the printer when a page is viewed in the Reader mode. Earlier Safari versions would bring up a toolbar of icons when the mouse cursor was bumped at the bottom of the page. Menu included a printer. Safari 6.1 does not do this, requiring me to select the printer from a standard tool bar menu. (But I do appreciate the font size adjustment of the page in Reader mode!)I seem to recall there was also a slightly different toolbar displayed when a PDF file was viewed in Safari. Question Part 1: Can the floating Reader-view toolbar(s) be restored? I've been printing-to-PDF the various help/blog pages about Mavericks for later perusal. Question Part 2: Is there a single-click option that will select the sequence File - Print - PDF - Save as PDF ?? Regards Alan Alan Smith iMac late 2012, OS X 10.8.5 Regards, Alan Alan Smith Late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 iPad2; ATV2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: How to print as PDF from Safari Reader
Thanks Peter I am using Mountain Lion! An undocumented feature of 10.8.5 Supp 1? (But will upgrade when 10.9.1 is released. And I'll be prepared for it.) Regards Alan Sent from my iPad On 30 Oct 2013, at 7:38 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 29/10/2013, at 9:21 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Daniel and Ronni Its the floating menu that has disappeared: it may then be a Preview issue rather than a Safari one. Will look into that when I have more time.I don't have Adobe Reader installed (I think) but Adobe gets very tricky with coercing users into downloading that x*x* app! No, it's a documented Mavericks issue. Nothing to do with either Preview or Safari really. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Print to pdf from Windows - tip
Hi all, I love the OSX print to pdf feature - I use it all the time. I was recently forced back to the dark-side by etax (still waiting for the Mac version!) and really missed the feature when using Windows XP (under parallels) When my printing from etax suddenly went bad (printing as pale cyan - hard to read!) I decided to look a bit harder and discovered CutePDF: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/Writer.asp It all installed very easily in Windows - I had overlooked the Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript (recommended) requirement - but it offered to go and fetch it from CutePDF's website and now it all works very well. I save the pdfs in a folder shared between Windows OSX and just review them with quicklook (or Preview) - but, when I wanted a printed copy, the problem document printed just fine to pdf and the pdf printed fine under OSX - so problem solved. I am sure there are probably many other ways to do this - but for any of you that run Windows, I can highly recommend CutePDF as an easy way to print to pdf. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Print to pdf from Windows - tip
I echo your frequent use of Print to PDF, Neil, a real convenience. I am similarly tied to Windows for eTax but have had no such printing problems with Windows XP under VMWare Fusion v3. All done for this year now - maybe Mac e-Tax will appear next year. Severin Crisp On 28/10/2010, at 3:04 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I love the OSX print to pdf feature - I use it all the time. I was recently forced back to the dark-side by etax (still waiting for the Mac version!) and really missed the feature when using Windows XP (under parallels) When my printing from etax suddenly went bad (printing as pale cyan - hard to read!) I decided to look a bit harder and discovered CutePDF: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/Writer.asp It all installed very easily in Windows - I had overlooked the Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript (recommended) requirement - but it offered to go and fetch it from CutePDF's website and now it all works very well. I save the pdfs in a folder shared between Windows OSX and just review them with quicklook (or Preview) - but, when I wanted a printed copy, the problem document printed just fine to pdf and the pdf printed fine under OSX - so problem solved. I am sure there are probably many other ways to do this - but for any of you that run Windows, I can highly recommend CutePDF as an easy way to print to pdf. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
How to set print to pdf page margins (or just Firefox page margins?)
Hi all, Maybe I'm missing something obvious here but... I often find good recipes on http://www.cuisine.com.au/ and then save them as pdfs and then print them out if when I want to try them. Often I find that what could be a one page recipe carries over to two pages with just a line or two on the second page that could be fixed by just reducing the top/bottom page margins - however, I can find nowhere where I can set-up the page margin. I am running OSX 10.6.3 (yes, I know 10.6.4 is out - just haven't got round to updating) and browsing using Firefox 3.6.6. At first I thought that maybe there is just no way to do this - but then I found two copies of the same recipe/webpage (that I had saved at different times with slightly different names) and was surprised to find that one of them had several more lines on page one before it rolled to page 2 - now I'm not sure what I could have done differently (except that I could have upgraded Firefox and/or OSX in the interim) - but it seems to suggest that there is some sort of default printing settings that can be changed? Anybody got any ideas? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to set \print to pdf\ page margins (or just Firefox page margins?)
Hi Bob, Good to hear from you again :) Thanks for the idea, I'm not really looking to scale though (which I could do anyway in Firefox's Page setup menu) as that reduces the printed width, photos etc - just to print on more of the paper top and bottom - when I am browsing pdfs, I just want to see one page rather than two (where the second page just has one or two lines) and the margins set, at present, are certainly much larger than the minimum printing margins. Also I see that cups-pdf offers Common save location for all generated PDFs - which I don't want as I have modified my Print PDF menu to include specific folders to save particular types of pdfs to (eg a recipes folder). So far, for printing from Firefox, Google seems to have suggestions regarding using custom page sizes - but (besides being cumbersome and inconvenient) this does not really address my print to pdf issue. So... still looking Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/7/10 7:18 PM, Robert Howells at rhowe...@arach.net.au wrote: Neil just an idea You could use cups-pdf which is available here :- http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20219/cups-pdf I use it all the time just Apple P and enter after it has been selected in the Printer Q in lieu of an actual printer . With the Leopard version you can scale .. just like a printer ,, on Safari docs and probably on other docs I just have not looked before. The version available at the link says OK for Snow Leopard Regards Bob Howells who reads it but is still off the Wamug list -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to set print to pdf page margins (or just Firefox page margins?) - solved - sort off!
Well, I have found a solution: Google led me to this forum: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=426597 Which included this post: Thought I'd follow up this one, since it ranks top when googling firefox osx print margins. Finally got it to work. What I did; type in about:config in your address bar (without the quotes of course) and hit enter. in the Filter field, type print. Now change these values; print.print_extra_margin 0 print.print_margin_bottom 0 print.print_margin_left 0 print.print_margin_right 0 print.print_margin_top 0 Now printing to PDF won't add those pesky margins. To make it work with your printer, follow the advice above about creating your own custom paper preset. Hope this helps! So I thought I'd give it a go... - I picked a recipe page that seemed to fit the bill and saved a pdf that had just 5 lines of text on the second page. Then I followed the above tip (but just changed the top bottom margins to 0 and left the left/right margins unchanged). Then I restarted firefox (not sure if this is necessary - but it seemed like the thing to do!) and saved the same webpage to pdf. Bingo now all five lines were on the first page - five lines was obviously about the limit of the previously set margins as there was still a blank second page (which could then be deleted in preview) presumable containing a blank line. The only problem with this solution is it seems a little brutal - when you enter about:config you get a Firefox warning saying: This might void your warranty! - and warning of potential problems with Firefox if you start changing things. You dismiss the warning by hitting a I'll be careful, I promise! button. I must admit, I'd have preferred to have found some dialogue box where I could have set these margins on a page by page basis whenever I invoked the print dialogue, rather than having to reconfigure Firefox. However, it is quick and easy - and it works! (and I can always increase the margins later if I want). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/7/10 4:59 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi all, Maybe I'm missing something obvious here but... I often find good recipes on http://www.cuisine.com.au/ and then save them as pdfs and then print them out if when I want to try them. Often I find that what could be a one page recipe carries over to two pages with just a line or two on the second page that could be fixed by just reducing the top/bottom page margins - however, I can find nowhere where I can set-up the page margin. I am running OSX 10.6.3 (yes, I know 10.6.4 is out - just haven't got round to updating) and browsing using Firefox 3.6.6. At first I thought that maybe there is just no way to do this - but then I found two copies of the same recipe/webpage (that I had saved at different times with slightly different names) and was surprised to find that one of them had several more lines on page one before it rolled to page 2 - now I'm not sure what I could have done differently (except that I could have upgraded Firefox and/or OSX in the interim) - but it seems to suggest that there is some sort of default printing settings that can be changed? Anybody got any ideas? Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Mac spreadsheet Print to PDF
On 11/07/2008, at 12:27 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: David, If you ar e using Excel, there is a Save as Web Page option under the File menu that produces a .htm file. Numbers doesn't really have an export to html. Alternatively you can always Print to a pdf So is anybody else using the Cups-pdf application which allows you to do Apple P enter Saves time by comparison to Print to PDF Bob and upload as a PDF. Depending on what you want to do, the PDF option will give you a more consistent presentation across multiple browsers. Glenn. 2008/7/11 David Hudleston [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anybody know of a program to convert spreadsheets into html for Mac? regards David -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Glenn Nicholas OM4.com.au | OM4Tourism.com | OM4Business.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Print to PDF
Daniel Forsdyke wrote: Paul You have two options in regards to reducing the file size. 1. In the drop down menu you see when you use 'Save As PDF' in the Print Dialog Box, look for a filter to reduce file size, which will save the PDF at a lower resolution and do what it says it will do - reduce the file size. 2. The other option is something you can use on the PDF's you have already saved. Right-click (Control-click) on the files icon, and select 'open with - colorsync utility'. Down the bottom of this window you will see a drop down menu for 'filters', select 'reduce file size' and then 'apply'. You can then clos the window, and select 'save' from the dialog box that pops up. Apple conveniently provides a video of this at their Small Business Quick Tip of the Week site: http://www.apple.com/business/videotips/?movie=bigpdf Note also the CUPS-PDF driver, not sure if it produces smaller PDFs: http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Opinions for hire [POQ] http://newtonslore.com/fnord -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Print to PDF
I have just migrated up from OS9 to OSX and am enjoying the new interface. But I have used PrintToPDF to print neat tidy and small pdf's from FileMaker to publish on the net. When I use the Save As PDF function from the printer dialogue box, the files are huge compared to before. The client only ever prints the PDF's from the net, so there is no need for anything fancy. Is the a simple printer program for OSX that creats small PDF's. I also notice the mouse and curser is way weird in OSX, and I feel like a grade 1 novice again. I have the Mac Pro Mouse on a G4 Tower. It works fine when I start up in OS9. Regards PC -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Print to PDF
Paul You have two options in regards to reducing the file size. 1. In the drop down menu you see when you use 'Save As PDF' in the Print Dialog Box, look for a filter to reduce file size, which will save the PDF at a lower resolution and do what it says it will do - reduce the file size. 2. The other option is something you can use on the PDF's you have already saved. Right-click (Control-click) on the files icon, and select 'open with - colorsync utility'. Down the bottom of this window you will see a drop down menu for 'filters', select 'reduce file size' and then 'apply'. You can then clos the window, and select 'save' from the dialog box that pops up. I regularly use the second option after I have used a small utility called 'Combine PDF's', and this option has seen 40+MB files reduced to less the 2MB. Hope this helps. Regards Daniel F. On Wednesday, December 19, 2007, at 10:43AM, Paul Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just migrated up from OS9 to OSX and am enjoying the new interface. But I have used PrintToPDF to print neat tidy and small pdf's from FileMaker to publish on the net. When I use the Save As PDF function from the printer dialogue box, the files are huge compared to before. The client only ever prints the PDF's from the net, so there is no need for anything fancy. Is the a simple printer program for OSX that creats small PDF's. I also notice the mouse and curser is way weird in OSX, and I feel like a grade 1 novice again. I have the Mac Pro Mouse on a G4 Tower. It works fine when I start up in OS9. Regards PC -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tiger print to PDF problems
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:59:39PM +0800, Mike MOORE wrote: On 08/11/2005, at 8:30 PM, James Devenish wrote: What version of Mac OS X are you using? Tiger 10.4.3 Thanks. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +0800, Mike MOORE wrote: PROBLEM 1 I have had problems with the fonts in PDF versions of CAD drawings I have sent to a PC user. I am using the save to Postscript file option and then converting these to PDF through Preview. I'd suspect this is not a good idea; just print directly to PDF. In Mac OS X, PDF is the native format and conversion to PS is an extra step. The quality is just not there in the Print to PDF option - the colours are washed out and the lines are jaggy. That's really bizarre! The Print to PDF option preserves all quality that the programme offers -- that is why it typically produces large PDFs. In Apple's words: Save AS PDF creates a digital master PDF file. All graphics are at full resolution and the file includes each font character it uses. I wonder if your difficulties relate to your CAD programme or your printer capabilities (i.e., your choice of printer in the Print dialogue). Perhaps you will need Acrobat as a companion to your CAD programme? Perhaps check the support documentation for your CAD programme, to see if these are known issues? On both the Mac and the PC they look fine (the font used is Arial). Print them out from the PC however and all of the text comes out as a very crude Courier. What programme is being used to print on the PC? Acrobat Reader Hmm. PROBLEM 2 The Apple print to PDF won't recognise custom page sizes. Same problem exists with the Print to PDF option. The CAD program in question only uses the System printers for page set ups. What I meant is that I don't have any problem with custom page sizes unless my printer is set to something like a cheap inkjet -- that limits the paper size. The only other thing that springs to mind is that I haven't used the CAD program in question. I haven't personally had any custom paper size problems with other apps (only with the choice of printer). I'm not sure about other people's experiences. Either way, the Print to PDF option is not normally limited in its page size (other than the limits of PDF).
Re: Tiger print to PDF problems
On 09/11/2005, at 8:21 , James Devenish wrote: The quality is just not there in the Print to PDF option - the colours are washed out and the lines are jaggy. That's really bizarre! The Print to PDF option preserves all quality that the programme offers -- that is why it typically produces large PDFs. In Apple's words: Save AS PDF creates a digital master PDF file. All graphics are at full resolution and the file includes each font character it uses. This is not unprecedented. In Word (both v.X and 2004), EPS files inserted into the document print beautifully (to a postscript printer), but only show as low-res previews on screen. Print to PDF saves a PDF containing the low-res preview. Recently, when you choose Save PDF as PostScript, rather than Save PDF, you get a full-quality PDF file. May be worth a try from your CAD program too. PROBLEM 2 The Apple print to PDF won't recognise custom page sizes. This is probably an application-specific problem (not that that helps you). I have seen a colleague of mine print an A0 PDF from Pages. Make sure that Page Setup reflects the paper size you want to print to. -josh
Tiger print to PDF problems
PROBLEM 1 I have had problems with the fonts in PDF versions of CAD drawings I have sent to a PC user. I am using the save to Postscript file option and then converting these to PDF through Preview. On both the Mac and the PC they look fine (the font used is Arial). Print them out from the PC however and all of the text comes out as a very crude Courier. PROBLEM 2 The Apple print to PDF won't recognise custom page sizes. For example A1 or A2. All that prints with these sizes is the top LH A4 size corner of the drawing. Is there a way of overcoming these two problems? Or do I have to go off and buy Acrobat. mike moore
Re: Tiger print to PDF problems
Hi, What version of Mac OS X are you using? In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +0800, Mike MOORE wrote: PROBLEM 1 I have had problems with the fonts in PDF versions of CAD drawings I have sent to a PC user. I am using the save to Postscript file option and then converting these to PDF through Preview. I'd suspect this is not a good idea; just print directly to PDF. In Mac OS X, PDF is the native format and conversion to PS is an extra step. I think it's only good/necessary if required for a programme such as Distiller. On both the Mac and the PC they look fine (the font used is Arial). Print them out from the PC however and all of the text comes out as a very crude Courier. What programme is being used to print on the PC? Arial is one of the core fonts, so it can either be supplied by the PDF file, by the operating system, or by the printer. The programme being used to print the PDF might be incorrectly sending or not sending the PDF's embedded version of Arial. There may be an option regarding these core fonts. Alternatively, Arial is not getting embedded by the PS-PDF process (so try printing directly to PDF). PROBLEM 2 The Apple print to PDF won't recognise custom page sizes. Do you mean that Page Setup... (under the File menu) doesn't allow you to select your custom page size? If so, this may be because your printer is telling Mac OS X that the paper size is not supported. Thus, when you go to print, the PDF is cropped to your printer's capabilities even though you are creating a PDF file. Alternatively, the problem may be that the CAD software may have separate custom page size options that are currently mis-coordinated with your Page Setup: check the settings in both places.
