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Downloading and saving IRS publications as pdf?

I recently visited the IRS site and looked a Publication 590 on individual IRAs. It is listed as p590.pdf. When I try to save it onto my own computer, I get a message "The document ³p590.pdf² could not be exported as ³p590.pdf². " That happens no matter what file name I present. I am using Safari as a browser, but I think it would happen no matter what browser I use. IIRC that used to be easy to do a few years ago.

QUESTION: Is there a simple straightforward way of downloading and saving an IRS publication (particularly pdf files) in a form that can be easily searched?

Reply to
Salmon Egg
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Just worked fine for me using IE9 on

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Don EA in Upstate NY

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Don Priebe

I got that message with Safari, but the save works with Google Chrome. And Firefox doesn't even try to display the document in the browser window, it just downloads it by default.

Reply to
Barry Margolin

It worked for me, too. I just opened it and clicked on "save" in the drop-down menu.

Oh, and it was searchable.

___ Stu

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Reply to
Stuart A. Bronstein

I'll assume you are running Safari under MAC OS. If not, repost. The problem is with quicktime preferences. Here is the solution:

Quit Safari.

Open the Library folder in your home folder by holding down the option key and selecting Go ? Library from the Finder menu bar (Lion), or by selecting Go ? Go to Folder? and entering ?~/Library? (without the quotes) in the text box that opens (pre-Lion.)

Delete the following items from the Library folder:

Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist Preferences/QuickTime Preferences

Relaunch Safari and test.

Reply to
Alan

I thought I should expand on my reply in case you are not familiar with the OS nomenclature. Open Finder and go to the Library folder that is under your user account. In the Library folder is a subfolder called Caches. Caches has a subfolder called com.apple.Safari. In that subfolder you will find the file called Cache.db. It is huge. Delete it.

Next, go to the subfolder called Preferences in your Library. Delete the file called com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist

Also in Preferences subfolder, delete the file called QuickTime Preferences.

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Alan

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