Restore Print dialog after installing eFax Messenger

Dec 21, '04 01:57:00PM

Contributed by: pascalpp

If you've installed eFax Messenger on your machine, you may have noticed that the 'Preview' and 'Save as PDF...' buttons in the Print dialog are changed to iconic buttons. The Preview button shows the icon for Preview.app, and the PDF button shows a PDF icon. The Preview button behaves the same as before, opening a preview of your print job in Preview.app. The PDF button, however, now invokes a menu allowing you to 'Save as PDF' or 'Fax with eFax Messenger.'

I found this change to be highly annoying, as I use the Print dialog to save as PDF a lot. After some poking around, I noticed that eFax Messenger had installed a plugin in ~/Library -> PDF Services. Deleting the plugin got rid of the eFax Messenger menu item, but the buttons were still iconic, and the PDF button still invoked a menu, with only one option, 'Save as PDF'. Annoying.

Deleting the 'PDF Services' folder entirely reverted the buttons to their default state. Yay.

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