Print to pdf with Adobe Reader I'm filling out a PDF form that doesn't work with Preview so I have to use Adobe Reader (ugh).  After I fill out the form, I want to print it to PDF so that it is finalized.

Unfortunately, Adobe disables the Mac print to PDF and tells me I have to save as PDF instead, but if I save as PDF then other people can still edit it.  My current annoying solution is to print it to paper and then scan it.

Anyone know a way to circumvent Adobe's disabling of the Mac print to PDF feature?
I had the same problem and this is what I did after reading this question and answer


I installed a network printer localhost, I chose HP Laserjet Series PCL 4/5 as the driver
Print a document from adobe reader
Open Terminal.app and type the following:

sudo -s
cd /private/var/spool/cups
ls -lh
Total 1048  
-rw------- 1 root _lp 1.6K Jan 18 16:24 c00001  
-rw------- 1 root _lp 1.7K Jan 18 16:40 c00002  
Drwxrwx--- 10 root _lp 340B Jan 18 16:40 cache  
-rw-r----- 1 root _lp 259K Jan 18 16:23 d00001-001  
-rw-r----- 1 root _lp 254K Jan 18 16:39 d00002-001  
Drwxrwx--T 3 root _lp 102B Jan 18 16:39 tmp



Looking at the timestamp and size, easy to see that d00001-001 and d00002-001 are the postscript files I just printed from Adobe Reader.


pstopdf d00002-001


And you have a d00002-001.pdf file,
Change the owner of this file then move this file out to desktop
(replace username with your actual username)


chgrp username d00002-001.pdf
mv d00002-001.pdf ~username/Desktop


And there you have it, without having to install any thirdparty pkg or drivers. You can remove the documents from the print queue manually.

just tested on osx 10.11.1 el capitan