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<h6>Fixing Save as Adobe PDF Crashes</h6>
<p><p>There have been many reported instances of the "Save as Adobe PDF" workflow crashing regardless of application, but precious few workarounds or resolutions. In troubleshooting, I discovered that there were three instances of the "Save as Adobe PDF.action" in three different locations: /Library/Automator; ~/Library/Automator; and /System/Library/Automator. By eliminating all except the version in /System/Library/Automator, the workflow started behaving, and I was able to cut PDFs directly from the Print dialog.</p></p>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Feb 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8865" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8865">Congratulations to Ron Gillmore of victoria.tc.ca, Lorne Chapman of shaw.ca, and Ben Maiden of hawaii.rr.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who received a copy of Rogue Amoeba's Fission, worth $32</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8866"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8866', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: A Sharp's Opal</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8866" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8866">I introduced last week's DealBITS drawing for Rogue Amoeba's Fission audio editing program by talking about how good it was to see simple, focused programs returning to a field after the major applications had become more complex than was desired by many early users</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8867"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8867', 'show')">Create Permanent Links to the New York Times</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8868"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8868', 'show')">Google Gmail Open to All</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8868" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8868">Google has at last opened up its well-regarded Gmail email service to all comers, eliminating the need to receive an invitation from an existing user before signing up</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8870"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8870', 'show')">InterviewBITS: Key Apple Technologies</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8870" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8870">The pool of Macintosh software has become incredibly deep over the years, containing a vast number of applications for nearly every imaginable purpose</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8871"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8871', 'show')">Take Control News/19-Feb-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8871" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8871">Month of Apple Sales #3: Tame the Tiger -- Working with big cats requires skill and knowledge, and Mac OS X Tiger is no exception. Hone your technical chops with this carefully chosen collection of our most in-depth ebooks about tricky Mac OS X issues</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 19 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8852"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8852', 'show')">WWDC Scheduled for June 2007</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8852" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8852">Apple has announced that the annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will be held 11-Jun-07 through 15-Jun-07 in San Francisco, two months earlier than in 2006</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Feb 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8853" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8853">Newsweek recently brought us Bill Gates's ignorant ranting about security on the Mac, a topic on which he was apparently informed solely by the existence of the Month of Apple Bugs project</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Feb 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8854" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8854">Congratulations to Hans van Helvert of exsistere.net, Nina Contini Melis of mac.com, and Michael Scriven of aol.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who received a copy of the SmileOnMyMac Productivity Suite, worth $129</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Feb 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8855" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8855">All too often we see products released with relatively basic feature sets, after which they evolve into powerful applications used by professionals. That leaves few choices for those who want a simple, focused program</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8856"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8856', 'show')">Steve Jobs Blasts DRM</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8856" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8856">In an unprecedented move, Apple last week posted on the company Web site an open letter from Steve Jobs entitled "Thoughts on Music." That Apple chose the open letter approach is interesting, but sensible, since there isn't really a conventional format for a company to express an opinion or take a position other than a press release, and the letter was aimed, as we'll see, at many audiences other than the press</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8858"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8858', 'show')">Take Control News/12-Feb-07</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8858" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8858">Month of Apple Sales #2: Love the One You're With -- Valentine's Day is this week, reminding us to think of our nearest and dearest. In the Mac world, you needn't pine for new versions of iPhoto, iTunes, iWeb, and GarageBand when you can focus on the iLife '06 versions you have now</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 12 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8839"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8839', 'show')">Apple Inc. and Apple Corps Enter New Agreement</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8839" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8839">Apple Inc. and Apple Corps today announced a new agreement under which Apple Inc. will own all the trademarks related to "Apple" and will license some of those trademarks back to Apple Corps</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8841"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8841', 'show')">The Ultimate Mac Basement</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8841" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8841">In today's look at home renovation, we're travelling to the house of Soyburger, a 28-year-old video editor/computer animator/graphic designer who clearly has a flair for interior design</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Feb 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8842" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8842">Congratulations to Steve Green of cox.net, Ed Mullin of ewmullin.com, Matthew MacKay of upei.ca, and Steve Cronin of austin.rr.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who received a copy of Clickable Bliss's Billable, worth $24.95</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Feb 2007</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8843" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8843">SmileOnMyMac has made a name for itself over the past few years by offering an increasing number of useful Macintosh applications. They're probably best known for PDFpen, their PDF editing utility, but they also develop DiscLabel for creating and printing CD/DVD labels, PageSender for sending documents as faxes, BrowseBack for providing a visual history of your Web browsing, TextExpander for speeding entry of repetitive bits of text, and PhotoPrinto for designing and printing photo albums and scrapbooks</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8844"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8844', 'show')">Nolobe Takes Over Interarchy; 8.5 Ships</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8844" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8844">Peter Lewis and Stairways Software last week announced that Nolobe, a new company formed by Interarchy lead developer Matthew Drayton, has acquired Interarchy from Stairways in what amounts to an employee buyout</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8845"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8845', 'show')">Macinstruct Opens Mac Tutorial Contest</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8845" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8845">Here's an idea I like - a contest to generate the most creative and innovative tutorials for Macintosh users. Sure, the meme is that being a Mac user means not having to read the manual, but the fact is that the Mac world is also home to some of the best writers and teachers on the planet</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Feb 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/8846"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('8846', 'show')">Open Door Networks Updates Security Products</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_8846" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_8846">With all the recent fuss about security on the Mac, it's worth pointing out that we have plenty of tools to protect us from the most common Internet dangers</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 05 Feb 2007</div></div>
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