I am a new OS X user (10.4), having just switched from Windows. I've used Linux a lot too so I am pretty bold about mucking about in system files (but not for fun, only when necessary!).
I don't know how this happened, but somehow my user account got into a state in which I was unable to use "Save to PDF" or Preview from the print dialog. This happened in all applications I tried. My user account is not an administrator. The other non-administrator account on the machine had no problems, nor did the administrator account.
I got some hints from another post on this site, so I looked around for .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences and found the following:
com.apple.print.favorites.plist
com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs.plist
com.apple.print.custompresets.plist
The first two did not appear in the Preferences directories of the other accounts. I deleted those two, leaving the custompresets file.
Problem solved!
I wonder if anyone can explain what happened. I used od to dump the .plist files but didn't see anything that rung a bell. I recently installed Quickbooks Pro 2006, wonder if it broke something.
Where can I look to find out more about the .plist files?
I don't know how this happened, but somehow my user account got into a state in which I was unable to use "Save to PDF" or Preview from the print dialog. This happened in all applications I tried. My user account is not an administrator. The other non-administrator account on the machine had no problems, nor did the administrator account.
I got some hints from another post on this site, so I looked around for .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences and found the following:
com.apple.print.favorites.plist
com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs.plist
com.apple.print.custompresets.plist
The first two did not appear in the Preferences directories of the other accounts. I deleted those two, leaving the custompresets file.
Problem solved!
I wonder if anyone can explain what happened. I used od to dump the .plist files but didn't see anything that rung a bell. I recently installed Quickbooks Pro 2006, wonder if it broke something.
Where can I look to find out more about the .plist files?