Printing to file is not allowed

[Jannz]

Hello, using acrobat 7.0 professional when I right click on it, and try to save a document viewed on the net to pdf, I get a message "Printing to file is not allowed". How can I bypass this ?

Any help much appreciated thanks Jan.

 

[jmgalvin]

If you're taliking about a web page in html, hit Print and select Adobe pdf as printer.

If you're viewing a pdf on the web (with the pdf extension in the title)try Save As

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Jannz]

Thanks jmgalvin, yes, it's an active x object, and selecting pdf as a printer is where I get the message. It will not allow printing to pdf. I presume there must be some code in there preventing it and giving this message. Any ideas ? Thanks again.

 

[jmgalvin]

Did you try saving teh html first to your hard drive and opening it locally and the going to pdf?

Beware that a lot of things can be built so as to prevent "printing", such as pdfs can be built to prevent printing. Your security on teh computer could also be preventing the active x thingy (I'm on mac) from doing anything.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Jannz]

Hi again, good idea, but the option "Save background as" is greyed out. The "Convert to adobe pdf" results in an error message "Acrobat had an error converting to pdf" As you say there is some kind of code preventing pdf generation. I can generate them from other sites, for example

http://www.wises.co.nz/route/

 

[jmgalvin]

Forgot something; In Acrobat pro go to File/Create pdf/from web page. Put in the address and see if that works.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[Jannz]

OK, this was a cool idea, and I didn't know that you could do this, but no luck, have a go yourself

http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/34451/Product.aspx

I hoped to be able to pdf the first page.

Again, many thanks.