Save as PDF not working suddenly

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Save as PDF not working suddenly

As of yesterday, unable to use the *'Save as PDF'* feature in the print dialogue.

Clicking on Save as PDF produces no result window (file name as save location). In fact, none of the options under PDF button works, neither does the Preview button.

Happening with all applications. No font conflicts. Permissions repaired.

Only way to make this feature work now is by
1. manually deselecting the default printer (Epson)
2. manually selecting Adobe PDF 9
3. clicking on the PDF button
4. selecting Save as PDF select +(not Print: no file is pdf-ed or saved anywhere)+

~ and the original workflow is back (save dialogue box pops up, etc.)

All of this should happen almost automatically, as before. Assume something is broken / corrupted.

Any help would be appreciated, as I use this feature a lot.

iMac 20" Intel Core Duo, MacBook 2.4Ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.1), Time Capsule 500GB; iPhone2G

Posted on Oct 23, 2009 11:00 PM

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Dipe Chatterjee Author

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Oct 24, 2009 2:08 PM in response to Dipe Chatterjee

Reinstalled SL over current installation and updated to 10.6.1.

'Save as PDF" still doesn't work.

If 'Save as PDF' is an Automator workflow, here's a clue perhaps...

In user>library>pdf services, found a workflow reading 'Save As PDF-X.workflow'. When clicked, opened up the Automator library with the following message:

"The behavior of this workflow may have changed because of the reasons listed below.
The workflow was saved with an older version of the action "Apply Quartz Filter to PDF Documents. Some behavior may have changed."

Anyone?

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Answer 2

Nov 21, 2009 12:36 PM in response to Dipe Chatterjee

Try this found on another post
The problem seems to have been resolved.

What I did:
0. In System Preferences - Print & Fax : remove the printer
1. Switch off the printer
2. Remove everything in /Library/Printers
3. Switch on the printer
Software Update proposed (all by itself) to install the printer drivers
4. After installation everything worked again.

Thanks to John Blanchard1's advice!

Message was edited by: Mausy

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