IRS form print gyrations

Last week I made Adobe Acrobat 8 the Safari 3.0 plug in for PDF
files.
Today I needed to print a 2007 IRS form from their web site, so
I accessed the form PDF and clicked Print. Easy?
No: Mac OS X (10.4.11) refused saying

"The document could not be printed. Information needed to print
a page is not available"

Well, maybe SJ is tax delinquent so the IRS is blocking Mac OS X
computers until he pays. So I tried Print > Save as PDF. That was
blocked by a message saying that conversion was not allowed.

Next I downloaded the PDF to a folder, opened into Acrobat,
did a Save As to try to clean it, tried Print again, same messages.

Finally, in desperation I did a Save a Copy as PS, passed the
PS through Distiller, and that worked: the distilled PDF can be
printed.

What is going on? Who or what is responsible for these weird events?
The browser? Adobe? Max OS X? IRS?

carlos.TakeThisOut@colorado.edu writes:

> Last week I made Adobe Acrobat 8 the Safari 3.0 plug in for PDF
> files.
> Today I needed to print a 2007 IRS form from their web site, so
> I accessed the form PDF and clicked Print. Easy?
> No: Mac OS X (10.4.11) refused saying
>
> "The document could not be printed. Information needed to print
> a page is not available"

Mine says something like 'creating printer' and then sits there
doing nothing, until I give up and croak it. Preview prints ok.
You have to control-click on the file, then select it with the
open with menu.

As for a decent plug-in, I use this -

http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/

It's less intrusive than Adobe's - it won't try to make itself a
default, breaking other things in the process, nor does it phone
home, etc. It's smaller, loads faster, is more efficient, and -
it works, including printing. Plus, it's free for personal use.

Billy Y..