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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1865329" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>One way around it would be to simply have gone one page back to the link that you clicked on to get to the PDF page. Then click on the PDF's link with the Option key held down. That will cause the entire PDF to download as a PDF file onto your hard drive rather than open in your browser.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, assuming that you have an application designed to be able to do so. What you are speaking of is known technically as a PDF/A. (i.e. an "archival PDF") PDF/A files are not editable (thought you can OCR them to make them editable), and they embed the fonts that they use so that they look exactly the same on any computer, even if that computer doesn't have the same fonts installed.</p><p></p><p>Any version of Microsoft Word since Office 2011, or LibreOffice, or FreeOffice can create a PDF/A. I just tried this with FreeOffice's TextMaker, and though it doesn't have a "PDF/A" menu choice, when you choose to export a file in PDF format a small dialog box appears in which you can choose to make the file non-interactive and to embed fonts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1865329, member: 190607"] One way around it would be to simply have gone one page back to the link that you clicked on to get to the PDF page. Then click on the PDF's link with the Option key held down. That will cause the entire PDF to download as a PDF file onto your hard drive rather than open in your browser. Yes, assuming that you have an application designed to be able to do so. What you are speaking of is known technically as a PDF/A. (i.e. an "archival PDF") PDF/A files are not editable (thought you can OCR them to make them editable), and they embed the fonts that they use so that they look exactly the same on any computer, even if that computer doesn't have the same fonts installed. Any version of Microsoft Word since Office 2011, or LibreOffice, or FreeOffice can create a PDF/A. I just tried this with FreeOffice's TextMaker, and though it doesn't have a "PDF/A" menu choice, when you choose to export a file in PDF format a small dialog box appears in which you can choose to make the file non-interactive and to embed fonts. [/QUOTE]
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