Hello! I installed Monterey 12.0.1 on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) but I have problem with "Preview".
When I open a PDF files and add personal text (for example), I can't click on "Export to PDF" because the menu item is disable.
Until a few days ago, I was doing the same things with BigSur and this feature was enabled.
Can you fix?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.0
Oh wait. It's dimmed because it is already a PDF. You can just save it or hold the option key for "Save As…" from the File menu.
temporary workaround until apple fixes issue. in preview, file -> print. from drop down menu at bottom of print window select save as pdf.
I have the same Mac as you!
...alright.. The way: "print, save as PDF" is working. Thank you!
If you haven't already, send feedback to the macOS product team, as they do not participate here and will never see the accumulated comments. And then there is convincing them that they have a problem to fix, an assigned priority, and some future Monterey Preview fixes cycle.
Same issue as described by all, with added note that (password) encrypted PDF's CANNOT be exported using most of the workarounds described, with the kludgy exception of opening the PDF doc in Safari (other browser) and printing as a PDF. Monterey has essentially broken a simple, but critical feature of PDF handling on the Mac.
Hello
I may have found a workaround
It is truly stupid, but, it seems to work until Apple decides to fix the export as pdf button in preview
If you open a secured or password protected pdf like an American Express bill in Acrobat, you can export it as a word doc and then print is as a pdf.
The security will be stripped and you can edit it as needed
It used to be possible to open the pdf in preview and then export it as a pdf to do the same thing, but, that feature seems to be broken in Monterey
I hope that helps
If anyone has found an easier solution, please post
Thank you
Send Apple a bug report from the feedback page.
Preview autosaves your changes and it is not a PDF Editor that will allow you to revise the original PDF text content. If you need that capability, there are several PDF editors in the Mac App Store and they are not free.
I'm having the same problem! I receive Docusign PDFs and with Big Sur I could "Export as PDF" separate docs and then combine them into one file (couldn't combine them without "Export as PDF" first). With Monterey I cannot do that, and I have not found a way to combine Docusign (or protected) PDFs into a single file - e.g. contract + addendums. I can export to a PNG, and then export that to a PDF but the new PDF shows the first page over and over - e.g. a 13 page doc will now be a PDF with the first page 13 times...
Hello!
Print… > PDF > Save As PDF functionality
Only with this way, I obtain an PDF files (with my add text not editable and smaller size).
The same PDF that with BigSur, I got the "Export to PDF" menu item.
I hope that Apple repair this feature.
I agree with mikekillthedog and have the same issue. This is a bug and NOT a "feature that was removed" for Preview in Monterey. I used this feature "Export to PDF" in Big Sur before all the time as a way to encrypt any PDF in Preview with a password. I hope Apple will fix this bug and restore this feature soon.
And yes I understand I can go the "Save As --> Permissions" route in Monterey to set password for the PDF, but the "Export to PDF" of Big Sur was much more convenient and faster.
Please stop telling us this is an intentional act by Apple to deprecate the "Export as PDF" feature when opening a PDF.
We have multiple machines here, and some are older models still running older OS's - and the feature works perfectly. Every machine running Monterey - the feature is greyed out. This was the only way to save an encrypted PDF on a Mac (other than 3rd party apps), going back many OS's.
Yes, there's Option > Save as and Print > PDF etc - none of these offers file encryption. The feature no longer works, period. No safe boot, no restart, no workaround fixes it: it's a BUG, plain and simple, and it's been reported on hundreds of times since Monterey was released, with no fix in sight.
Just got my new MacBook Pro 16" and updated to Monterey. Having the same PDF issue with Preview. I'm a realtor and use Preview to package my offers into one PDF. Now, I can't. It says the PDF is Password protected which I know it's not. Preview won't allow me to Export it. When I do the Print and Save As feature it won't even open. It asks for a password.
I use to export my PDF offer to get rid of the encryption and then combine all my other PDF's into it so it was one PDF. Then my Offer Package would be one PDF. After spending an hour to try to make it work I gave up and grabbed my old laptop that uses Mac OS Catalina and download the exact files. I did exactly what I always do and it worked fine. I was able to combine all PDF's into one without any Password protection boxes coming up. SO frustrating. Please Apple... fix it!
in 2020, i purchased the mbp m1 with bigsur installed. i recently updated it to monterey.
from this moment, if you open a pdf to add personal notes, there is no more function to export it as a pdf (not editable).
until bigsur, the item in the menu was clickable and i get a non-editable pdf file.
with monterey 12.01 i used a trick that simulated printing and on the downside of the pop up where you choose one of the available printers, i clicked on the drop down PDF and then I pressed "save as pdf" in the context.and the pdf generated was not editable.
with 12.1, this trick does not work because the saved pdf continues to be editable.
so i would like to have a pdf that is not editable, as it was with the previous macos.
a second reason why promotes me to make this report:
the editable file size weighs 400kb, without this possibility it weighs 30-40kb.
The text of my new feedback.
Can you send a feedback to Apple? https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html
I write but If you can write the same problem, Maybe Apple will fix in the next release.
[Bug] Export to pdf on Preview (Monterey)
