On Apr 7, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > Hey folks, > > I just noticed an odd behavior when printing to a pdf file: > > If I use Print... and then Save to PDF... and save the resulting > file, then the read/write permissions are as they ought to to be: > 644 (-rw-r--r--), BUT if I change the page layout to, say, 2 pages > per sheet, then the resulting file has different permissions, > namely 600 (-rw------). I also get permissions of 600 when I use > Automator to combine PDFs together. These different behaviors > happen even when I put things in the same directory, so it's not a > sticky bit problem. > > Is there any way to change this rather quirky behavior to ensure > that I can have 644 permissions, no matter what I do? Do others > have this same problem? > > I use the pdfs to share with classes I teach, and just realized > that many of the files have been inaccessible to the students. (Of > course, this also tells me how many students have tried to get to > the files: 0.) > > Thanks for any tips, > > Bill
Bill, Would a work-around help? I can't answer to your problem directly as to why or how to fix it, but here are some (freeware) utilities that may assist you in a work-around by using these on your files to change or set permissions before posting them for your students. BatChmod - 1.37 < http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12057 > Disk Permissions Utility - 2.0 < http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21325 > iRepair - 1.0.2 < http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29133 > UpdateWasher - 1.13 < http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29034 > Regards, Russ Preston | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 25 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
