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Operators Top Tips No3:

   

Problems printing PDF documents from within Firefox

   

1. Place the mouse over the link to the PDF document that is not printing and right-click the mouse. The following menu will appear


Click on "Save Link As..."


2. This will bring up the following box. The simplest thing is to accept the default which will save the file into a download folder in your homedirectory





3. Goto the computer Desktop and select your "Home" folder Within this you will find a "Download" folder. Open it.




4. You should know be able to see the downloaded document. Right-click on it and choose "Open With" now choose an alternate pdf viewer and try printing from that. For difficult documents you may have to try more than one viewer.



 

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