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I'm trying to send a document to email as a PDF. To do this you'd normally go to 'Print > PDF > Email PDF' but when I do this I get an error message:

The document mail PDF could not be opened because it is damaged or incomplete.

Any idea how I can resolve this? The document itself is a Excel doc, but it happens whenever I try to do 'Print > PDF > Email PDF'. However, if I go to 'Print > PDF > Save PDF' it saves them perfectly.

Any ideas what might be causing my problems?

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Which is your default mail application? Mail.app or Entourage/Outlook (or something else)? – jaume Nov 16 '12 at 15:57
mail.app, i do have outlook on there but it not setup / the default. Although ive got outlook (not setup/default but on the hd, as with the problem machine) on other machines and they work – sam Nov 16 '12 at 16:53
Does sending PDFs from other applications work? For example, if you open google.com in Safari, can you mail it as PDF using Print>PDF>Email PDF? – jaume Nov 16 '12 at 16:57
nope, same problem when trying it with a word doc, jpg and safari – sam Nov 16 '12 at 17:00
And can you generate a PDF with Print>PDF>Save as PDF from Excel or Safari? – jaume Nov 22 '12 at 9:06
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