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flatfoot99

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Sorry for not researching better but need an answer to this before I go over and help.
First off, I know everything about an iPhone/iPad, but never had a mac (plan to in near future). He has an iMac and from what I gather, when he gets a PDF via email, he can't print or edit it like he would on his old pc. I believe he can view it. Appreciate any help!
 
flatfoot99 said:
Sorry for not researching better but need an answer to this before I go over and help.
First off, I know everything about an iPhone/iPad, but never had a mac (plan to in near future). He has an iMac and from what I gather, when he gets a PDF via email, he can't print or edit it like he would on his old pc. I believe he can view it. Appreciate any help!
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To edit a PDF he is going to need Adobe Acrobat Standard
 
thankins said:
To edit a PDF he is going to need Adobe Acrobat Standard
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thanks! is it possible to print from what he has now? sorry for the lack of info. I have no idea what OS he might be using. I just know he can view it...
 
flatfoot99 said:
thanks! is it possible to print from what he has now? sorry for the lack of info. I have no idea what OS he might be using. I just know he can view it...
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Yep - just save the PDF and then open it in Preview.app (it's under applications) or you can double click on the attachment. Then go to file ---- print
 
thankins said:
Yep - just save the PDF and then open it in Preview.app (it's under applications) or you can double click on the attachment. Then go to file ---- print
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great! thanks!

if he does need to edit, how do I download adobe standard? Does it cost anything? Is there an app store for Mac? lol.. sounds silly, but I have no clue!
 
If he can view the PDF but cannot print it, there may be security restrictions in place. You may be able to change them with Acrobat Pro. You could also try downloading Skim, a free pdf viewing application. I can print even restricted PDF files with Skim. Depending on the OS version, Preview (comes with the iMac) might strip the permissions if he opens the file and does a Save As...

Good luck. It is hard to know what to recommend with so little to go on.
 
a little more info trickling in from the wife...

Mac is about a year old, so I'm assuming snow leopard is running on it. They want to be able to create/edit/print word and excel and PDF. Should I get office for Mac or iWork? or any other suggestions?
As you can see I really don't know much about this, but somehow my technology handicapped father-in-law thinks of me as the expert and I'd like to keep that illusion going for as long as I can. :D
 
flatfoot99 said:
a little more info trickling in from the wife...

Mac is about a year old, so I'm assuming snow leopard is running on it. They want to be able to create/edit/print word and excel and PDF. Should I get office for Mac or iWork? or any other suggestions?
As you can see I really don't know much about this, but somehow my technology handicapped father-in-law thinks of me as the expert and I'd like to keep that illusion going for as long as I can. :D
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Office for Mac I recommend.
 
flatfoot99 said:
a little more info trickling in from the wife...

Mac is about a year old, so I'm assuming snow leopard is running on it. They want to be able to create/edit/print word and excel and PDF. Should I get office for Mac or iWork? or any other suggestions?
As you can see I really don't know much about this, but somehow my technology handicapped father-in-law thinks of me as the expert and I'd like to keep that illusion going for as long as I can. :D
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I would suggest Office 2011 for Mac. iWork is great but the learning curve is huge and saving a document in Word is somewhat of a headache for the less savy.

Office is more straight forward
 
thanks guys, office it is! is this something I can download from the app store? from Microsoft? or do I need to pick this up from the store?
 
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