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March 8, 2019
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At wits end - unable to save tax return document from website (freefilefillableforms) in a format that Acrobat Reader DC will open for printing on my iMac?

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Correct answer jane-e

Hi JK

If you want Form 1040, get it from the IRS website, never from a no-name site like you mentioned.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

Other IRS forms are here:

Forms & Instructions | Internal Revenue Service

If you want a form for a state or commonwealth or county, Google the number of the form and the location and get it from the government website.

~ Jane

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By the way, I looked it up, "webarchive" is a Firefox only way of saving copies of web pages - not a way of downloading PDF files. Maybe it's how you try to save it is the problem.

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jk2019030519Author

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I again accessed the website via FireFox AND printed all tax documents EXCEPT the 1040 form which I then manually recreated via the 1040 blank form on the IRS website and printed via Acrobat Reader. I'm now satisfied - have documentation in my files for future reference. Don't know why these steps were necessary. Thanks for your attention. Looking forward to future Reader Community help to effectively use Reader.

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Do the forms show up on screen in Firefox? Do they show up as PDFs (or can't you tell, it isn't easy)?

What happens when you try and print?

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Why do you think we can help? But if you want us to try, please take care to answer the questions we ask, thanks.

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jk2019030519Author

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If questions asked of me appear unanswered, my apology as I tried to answer them. I welcome your help as I'm frustrated with not being able to print filed tax return documents from the same website that presented no printing problems in prior years. The only difference this year is that the website required FireFox for access via my iMac. And printing via FireFox is the printing problem which I

hoped that Adobe Reader DC would resolve. To date Reader will not open files from the website and I'm at a dead end re the solution.

jane-e

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Hi JK

If you want Form 1040, get it from the IRS website, never from a no-name site like you mentioned.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

Other IRS forms are here:

Forms & Instructions | Internal Revenue Service

If you want a form for a state or commonwealth or county, Google the number of the form and the location and get it from the government website.

~ Jane

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jk2019030519Author

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Jane,

Perhaps I should clarify. I prepared & submitted tax return to the IRS via the website which required use of FireFox for iMac access. Unfortunately, FireFox would not print a legibly copy for my files of the tax return documents, nor was I able to sweet-talk Acrobat Reader DC to access, open & print the files evidenced by the following messages. .Webarchive was mandated; also, tried .txt with no success.

Adobe Acrobat Reader could not open 'tax 2018 sch D.webarchive' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).

Adobe Acrobat Reader could not open 'tax 2018 sch 1.webarchive' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded). jim

try67

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Yes, Reader can only open PDF files.

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